LECTURE 5 OUTLINE - DISTRIBUTION OF SEISMIC ENERGY RELEASE (updated 10/15/97)
Instructor: Professor Barbara Romanowicz
Director of Seismological Laboratory
Office Hours: Thursday 2-4 pm , upon appointment only
475 Mc Cone Hall
DISTRIBUTION OF SEISMIC ENERGY RELEASE
References:
Bolt, Earthquakes, Chapter 2.
Gere and Shah, Terra Non Firma, Chapter 2.
Richter, Elementary Seismology, Chapters 6, 22, 25, 27,28, 30, 31.
1. Depth of Earthquakes
Classification
Geographical distribution
2. Geography of earthquakes
Circum-pacific Belt
Trans-Eurasian Belt
Atlantic and Indian Oceans
Rift Zones
Other areas
3. Most significant earthquakes of the world
Largest Earthquakes
Damaging Earthquakes
4. California Seismicity
5. Quantification of Seismicity
Distribution in time and space, periodicities
earthquake statistics
Numbers of earthquakes: frequency/moment (size) laws
Aftershock rates and Distribution
Earthquakes swarms
Recurrence Intervals
6. Seismic Gap Hypothesis