Course Weekly Lecture Plan

Week	Topic
1	Introduction: historical background, branches of seismology, overview of plate tectonics and seismology, objective of the course
2	Theory of elasticity: stress and strain, the Hooke's law, elastic modulii
3	Seismic waves: equation of motion, P- and S-waves, plane and spherical waves
4	Body waves: Snell’s law, ray geometry, attenuation, scattering, partitioning of seismic energy at a boundary (reflection and refraction)
5	Surface waves: Rayleigh and Love waves, dispersion of surface waves, group and phase velocity, free oscillations of the Earth
6	Seismometry: seismic spectrum, seismometers, seismograph systems, analog and digital records, global seismic networks
7	Seismology and the structure of the Earth: refraction seismology, crustal structure, overview of reflection seismology--Midterm Exam
8	Seismic waves in a spherical Earth: body wave travel time studies: travel-time inversion, structure of the mantle and the core
9	Determination of earthquake properties: location of the epicenter of an earthquake, earthquake size: magnitude, intensity, seismic moment, earthquake energy
10	Faults and faulting mechanism: elastic rebound theory, fault structure, faulting geometry (dip, strike, slip), fault types, focal mechanism
11	Seismicity: global distribution and frequency of earthquakes
12	Seismotectonics
13	Engineering seismology: strong motion seismology, site effect, building response, etc.
14	Other seismic phenomena: microseisms, volcanic tremors, tsunamis, nuclear explosions. Earthquake prediction.

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