Course Detail
Units:
3.0
Course Components:
Lecture
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement:
Recommended Prerequisites: GEO 5210 and MATH 3150.
Description
Physics of earthquakes and related sources. Topics include stress, strain, faulting, focal mechanisms, moment tensors, magnitudes and energy release, source kinematics, event detection and location, source discrimination, types of earthquakes, and case studies of notable earthquakes.