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| JFZ4016 | Global Tectonics and Seismicity | 2+0+0 | ECTS:4 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of GEOPHYSICAL ENGINEERING | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 2 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Yusuf BAYRAK | | Co-Lecturer | None | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | The student should obtain about seismicity patterns observed in different tectonic settings and characterize the seismic activities. |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | learn global tectonics and the belts of earthquakes. | 5,11 | | | LO - 2 : | learn global belts of earthquakes | 5,11 | | | LO - 3 : | learn relations between tectonics belt and the patterns of seismicity and earthquake activities. | 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 | | |
| Introduction, global tectonics, relations between global tectonics and earthquakes, some aspects of global earthquakes, variations of earthquakes in terms of time and space in different seismic zones, global variations of earthquakes in terms of magnitude and depths, relations between the different fault types and tectonics, variations of earthquake source parameters in different fault types, variations of seismicity parameters in global scale, implication of seismicity of Turkey and nearby regions, variations of seismicity parameters in Turkey and nearby regions. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | General information | | | Week 2 | Features of subduction zones | | | Week 3 | Characteristics of continental collision belt | | | Week 4 | Properties of transform faults and continental strike-slip faults | | | Week 5 | Characteristics of oceanic and continental rifts | | | Week 6 | Relationships the depths of the global earthquakes with the tectonic structures | | | Week 7 | Investigation of relations of stress axes of global earthquake with tectonic structures | | | Week 8 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 9 | Earthquake magnitude parameters | | | Week 10 | Relations ofmagnitude of the global earthquake with tectonic structure | | | Week 11 | Distinguishing of simple and complex earthquakes statistically | | | Week 12 | Second Exam | | | Week 13 | Distinguishing of the earthquakes and nuclear explosions | | | Week 14 | Relations of the seismic energies and moments of global earhquakes with the tectonic structures | | | Week 15 | The relations of values of stress drop and apperent stress of global earthquakes with tectonic structures | | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| 1 | Bayrak, Y., 2005; Global Sismisite Ders Notları, KTÜ, Trabzon | | | |
| 1 | Bayrak, Y. 2004; Sismoloji Ders Notları, KTÜ, Trabzon | | | 2 | Kearey, P. and Vine, F. J. 1990; Global Tectonics, Blackwell sicience, USA | | | 3 | Gubbins, D. 1990; Seismology and Plate tectonics, Cambridge University Press, UK | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 8 | 01/04/2011 | 2 | 30 | | In-term studies (second mid-term exam) | 12 | 06/05/2011 | 2 | 20 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 15/06/2011 | 2 | 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 | 1 | 14 | 14 | | Arasınav | 6 | 1 | 6 | | Uygulama | 1.5 | 1 | 1.5 | | Kısa sınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 8 | 1 | 8 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1.5 | 1 | 1.5 | | Total work load | | | 74 |
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