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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS GPE 5024 ANATOMY OF SEISMOGRAMS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR MEHMET UTKU

Offered to

Geophysical Engineering GEOPHYSICAL ENGINEERING

Course Objective

The course aims to teach the earthquake seismograms as both the reading and the analysis.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to define the seismogram as mathematical 2   To be able to define the earthquake phases on seismogram 3   To be able to define the types of seismograms 4   To be able to perform the seismogram converting 5   To be able to define the frequence anatomies of seismograms 6   To be able to calculate the synthetical seismogram

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description 1 Introduction: earthquakes, why and where do they occur, seismogram, anatomy. Physical and mathematical meaning of an seismogram. The earthquake recording systems. Homework-1: The description of second term in the Representation theorem 2 The introduction and description of an earthquake record. Earthquake Waves: their fundamenteal types, basic properties, ray paths, and anatomy on the record. Homework-2: The calculation of a Source-Time Function and a wavelet 3 Earthquake Waves: Crustul waves, and their basic properties, ray paths, and anatomy on the record. Homework-3: The calculation of a reflection coefficients series 4 Earthquake Waves: Mantle waves, and their basic properties, ray paths, and anatomy on the record. Homework-4: The calculation of the synthetic seismogram using Homework-1, Homework-2 and convolution 5 Earthquake Waves: converted types, and their basic properties, ray paths, and anatomy on the record. Homework-5: The designing and calculation of a synthetic seismogram involving the earthquake phases P, pP and sP 6 Earthquake Waves: deep phases, and their basic properties, ray paths, and anatomy on the record. Homework-6: To perform the synthetic seismogram involving the noise 7 Midterm exam-1 8 Earthquake Waves: core phases, and their basic properties, ray paths, and anatomy on the record. Homework-7: The seismogram reading on the observed near-field earthquake record 9 Earthquake Waves: surface waves, and their basic properties, ray paths, and anatomy on the record. Homework-8: The seismogram reading on the observed far-field earthquake record 10 Travel-times of earthquake phases. Homework-9: The seismogram reading on the observed broad-band earthquake record 11 Seismograms and Interpretations: local, regional and teleseismic events. 12 Midterm exam-2 13 Transformation of seismograms: among the displacement, velocity and strong motion seismograms. Homework-10: The calculation of a displacement seismogram using the velocity seismogram 14 Anatomy of earthquake spectrums. Homework-11: The comparison and calculation of the spectrums for a major and an non-major earthquakes

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Ota KULHÁNEK Anatomy of Seismograms. Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., Amsterdam, 1990. 2. Keiiti AKI, Paul G. RICHARDS Quantitative Seismology, Theory and Methods. Vol. I,II, W.H. Freeman and Co., San Francisco, USA, 1980. 3. Thorne LAY, Terry C. WALLACE Modern Global Seismology Academic Press, California, 1995.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, Midterm exam,and Homework

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA 1 MTE 1 MIDTERM EXAM 1 2 MTE 2 MIDTERM EXAM 2 3 ASG ASSIGNMENT 4 FIN FINAL EXAM 5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE 1* 0.10 + MTE 2 * 0.10 + ASG * 0.30 + FIN * 0.50 6 RST RESIT 7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE 1* 0.10 + MTE 2 * 0.10 + ASG * 0.30 + RST * 0.50

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Midterm exam-1 (%10): LO-1,2,3 Midterm exam-2 (%10): LO-4,5,6 Homework (%30): LO-1,2,3,4,5,6 Final exam (%50): LO-1,2,3,4,5,6

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assist.Prof.Dr. Mehmet UTKU, mehmet.utku@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

All of times out course

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours) Lectures 12 3 36 Preparation for midterm exam 2 5 10 Preparation for final exam 1 10 10 Homework 11 8 88 Midterm 2 3 6 Final 1 3 3 TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 153

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO PO.1 PO.2 PO.3 PO.4 PO.5 PO.6 PO.7 PO.8 PO.9 PO.10 PO.11 PO.12 PO.13 LO.1 4 5 5 4 3 LO.2 3 5 3 3 LO.3 5 LO.4 5 5 5 5 3 LO.5 4 5 5 4 3 LO.6 5 5 5 5 3