SISMOLOGY

Academic Year 2017/2018 - 1° Year - Curriculum PHYSICS APPLIED TO CULTURAL HERITAGE, ENVIRONMENT AND MEDICINE
Teaching Staff: Stefano GRESTA
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: GEO/10 - Solid Earth geophysics
Taught classes: 42 hours
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Learning Objectives

Knoweledge of theory of the seismic source and of the seimic waves proppagation.


Detailed Course Content

Theory of elasticity. Stress and strain tensors. Equations of Navier. Equations and propagation of P and S waves. Seismic energy. The Snell's law.. Seismic networks. Hypocentral locations. The Richter's.magnitude Foreshocks and aftershocks. Omori's and Gutenberg-Richter's laws. Elastic dislocations. Seismic sources. Focal mechanisms.


Textbook Information

Lay e Wallace - Modern global seismology, Academic Press, 1995