| January 7 |
Intensity |
PDF |
students: 3 questions
about earthquakes |
| January 9 |
Early earthquake
observations and theories (revised) |
PDF |
assign reading with
questions (Act. 1) Intensity 159-163 |
| January 12 |
Faults as the
cause of earthquakes |
PDF |
work in class with
Lawson Report survey data, start HWK 1 |
| January 14 |
Fault types, faults
in the field, LIDAR views of faults |
PDF |
assign reading with
questions (Act. 2) Faults 53-59 |
| January 16 |
More on fault
types, expected fault types at plate bdries |
PDF |
work on strike, dip,
and slip vector in class |
| January 19, 21,
and 23 |
Seismometry, seismograms,
networks and imaging Earth structure |
PDF |
HWK 1 due Wed 1/21 |
| January 26 |
Relative plate motions
and faults, elastic rebound. |
PDF |
Reading and questions: Bolt 88-90
(Activ. 3) |
| January 28 |
elastic rebound, intro
to strain |
PDF |
HWK 2 due Wed 1/28 |
| January 30 |
displacement field, displacement gradient |
PDF |
Class activity (individuals) with
vector fields (HWK3 part 1) |
| February 2 |
strain |
PDF |
Group activity on strain
and rotation (Activ. 4) Reading and questions: Bolt 82-88 (Activ. 5) |
| February 4 |
tectonic geodesy: GPS and InSAR |
PDF |
|
| February 6 |
finish strain, stress, shear stress,
normal stress |
PDF |
Hand out Homework 3 part
2. The lecture notes were never presented because I forgot my power
cord! Similar to what I said, should be helpful to study. |
| February 9 |
stresses in the Earth and Coulomb
failure |
PDF |
recommended reading for
review on strain and displacement gradient matric: Middleton and Wilcock
pp 234-248 |
| February 11 |
finish Coulomb failure + review |
PDF |
Homework 3 is due |
| February 13 |
Midterm Exam |
| February 23 |
Magnitude, Scaling with slip,
length, stress drop |
PDF |
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| February 25 |
Gutenberg-Richter relationship |
PDF |
Class activity: Magnitude scaling relationships
. Hand out GR plot activity. |
| February 27 |
(same as above) |
due: world GR plot activity. Assign HWK
4 (catalogue search and more GR). Hand out Brace and Byerlee 1966. |
| March 2 |
Friction, rate and state dependent
friction |
PDF |
Discuss Brace and Byerlee 1966 (stick-slip)
in class. Hand out Scholz reading. |
| March 4 |
Rate-and-state dependent friction,
stable frictional creep |
PDF |
|
| March 6 |
Spring-slider class activity |
Homework 4 is due. |
| March 9 | Instability, minimum earthquake
size |
PDF |
Reading and questions: Bolt, 90-101 |
| March 11 |
Instability, minimum earthquake size, conditions
for large earthquakes |
PDF |
|
| March 13 |
Big earthquakes, the effect of water on fault
stability and friction |
PDF |
Reading and HWK5 (eve. or weekend...aarrghh) |
| March 16 |
Coulomb stress and triggering (or
suppressing) of earthquakes by surface loads |
Class activity - triggering by surface
loads |
|
| March 18 |
Coulomb stress, stress shadows and triggering,
aftershocks |
PDF |
Reading and questions: Bolt, pp. 237-243 |
| March 20 |
Earthquake Forecasting |
PDF |
| Earthquake focal mechanisms |
PDF |
| Locating Earthquakes |
PDF |
| Earthquake Magnitude |
PDF |