COURSE OUTLINE GEOPHYSICS 20, FALL '97 (updated 07/15/96)
Instructor: Professor Barbara Romanowicz
Director of Seismological Laboratory
Office Hours: Thursday 2-4 pm , upon appointment only
475 Mc Cone Hall
Lecture Topics:
Historical Introduction
Basic Geological Concepts
Global Plate Tectonics
Faults and Earthquakes
Paleoseismology
Global Seismicity
California Seismicity
Earthquake Statistics
Elastic waves
Seismic Instrumentation
Locating Earthquakes
Magnitude
Structure of the Earth's Interior
Effects of Earthquakes
Reducing Seismic Risk
Self Protection in an Earthquake
Engineering Design
Volcanoes and Tsunamis
Earthquake Prediction
Induced Seismicity
Nuclear Explosion Seismology
Seismology of the Solar System
Topics in Research: examples at UC Berkeley
Laboratory Exercises:
Intensity
Estimation of Fault Slip Rates
Seismicity of Northern California
Locating Earthquakes, measuring magnitude
Earthquake Mechanism
Analysis of a teleseism