COURSE UNIT TITLE

: BASIC PRINCIPLES OF SEISMIC HAZARD ANALYSIS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
DEP 5006 BASIC PRINCIPLES OF SEISMIC HAZARD ANALYSIS ELECTIVE 2 0 0 7

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

EARTHQUAKE MANAGEMENT - NON THESIS
EARTHQUAKE MANAGEMENT

Course Objective

The course aims to provide an introduction to fundamental principles of earthquake hazard analysis.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to define the earthquake hazard and earthquake risk concepts
2   To be able to define the Earthquake-Hazard-Risk relationship
3   To be able to define the basic approaches of earthquake hazard analysis
4   To be able to define the earthquake hazard analysies as to earthquake source types
5   To be able to define the seismic risk reduction.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction: earthquake hazard and risk Homework-1: About the risk studies as statistical
2 The Elements of Seismic Hazard Analysis.
3 Earthquake Ground Motion: basic concepts Homework-2: The hazard studies on earthquakes
4 Seismotectonic Province and Seismotectonic Source
5 Solution Approaches for Seismic Hazard Analysis. Homework-3: The risk studies on earthquakes
6 Mid-term exam -1
7 The source types of earthquakes and their relationships with Seismic Hazard Analysis
8 Seismic Hazard Analysis: point and line sources Homework-4: The seismic hazard studies according to earthquake source types
9 Seismic Hazard Analysis: field source
10 Seismic Hazard Analysis: complex source
11 Seismic Hazard Analysis for Selected Seismotectonic Sources
12 Mid-term exam -2
13 Seismic Risk Reduction. Reasonable Risk. Homework-5: About the risk reduction studies of the Turkey
14 Special tutorials and presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s):
1) Leon REITER
Earthquake Hazard Analysis
Columbia University Press, New York, USA, 1990

Supplementary Book(s):
1) Robert S. YEATS, Kerry SIEH, Clarence R. ALLEN
The Geology of Earthquakes
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1997

2) Thorne LAY, Terry C. WALLACE
Modern Global Seismology
Academic Press, California, 1995.

Materials: Course Lectures

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, Homework, and Mid-term exam

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

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

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

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

Office Hours

All of times out Lecture

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 2 24
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 11 4 44
Preparation for midterm exam 2 10 20
Preparing homeworks 5 15 75
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Midterm 2 2 4
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 179

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12
LO.153
LO.23
LO.343
LO.443
LO.54334

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