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| JFZ3019 | Seismology | 3+0+0 | ECTS:3 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Compulsory | | Department | DEPARTMENT of GEOPHYSICAL ENGINEERING | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Nilgün Lütfiye SAYIL | | Co-Lecturer | None | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | The student should obtain basic knowledge about seismology. |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | learn earthquakes, earthquake parameters and earthquake mechanics. | 5,11 | | | LO - 2 : | learn seismographs, earthquake records and other seismological observations. | 5,11 | | | LO - 3 : | have experience for evaluating earthquakes parameters and earthquake waves. | 5,11 | | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| Earth Sciences and earthquake, types and classification of earthquakes, earthquake parameters, assessment of observational seismology, scale of earthquake shock intensities, interpretation of isoseismic maps, instrumentation and principles of seismographs, simple relations among the earthquake source parameters, elastic Rebound theory, principles of elasticity and elastic parameters, velocity and coefficients of elasticity, Snell?s law and incident body waves at a plane interface between two elastic medium, the ray parameter and calculation of wave velocity in relation to the earth radius. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Introduction | | | Week 2 | General Definitions Related to Earthquake | | | Week 3 | Plate Tectonics and Earth's Internal Structure | | | Week 4 | Theory of Elasticity | | | Week 5 | Wave Propagation | | | Week 6 | Elastic Waves: Body Waves and Surface Waves | | | Week 7 | Other Wave Types and Viewing of All Wave Phases in the seismograms | | | Week 8 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 9 | Earthquake Magnitude Parameters | | | Week 10 | Seismographs | | | Week 11 | Earthquake Kinematics and Dynamics | | | Week 12 | 2. Midterm Exam | | | Week 13 | Determination of Earth Structure | | | Week 14 | Determination of Earthquake Location and Time | | | Week 15 | Earthquake Risk Analysis | | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| 1 | Bayrak, Y. 2004; Deprem Bilimi Sismoloji, KTU, Trabzon | | | |
| 1 | Lay, T. and Wallace, T.C.1995; Modern Global Seismology, Academic Press, USA | | | 2 | Sherar, P.M. 1999; Introduction to Seismology, Cambridge University Press, UK | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 8 | 07/11/2011 | 1,5 | 30 | | In-term studies (second mid-term exam) | 12 | 08/12/2011 | 1,5 | 20 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 05/01/2012 | 1,5 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 5 | 10 | 50 | | Laboratuar çalışması | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 4 | 1 | 4 | | Arasınav | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Uygulama | 1 | 10 | 10 | | Klinik Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Ödev | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Proje | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Kısa sınav | 1 | 2 | 2 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 6 | 1 | 6 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Diğer 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Diğer 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Total work load | | | 118 |
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