The table below shows what material we will cover on different days. For each day, items listed with a blue background show the topics we will cover, and those with a yellow background show what resources, available on Canvas, are relevant for that day's discussions. Check out the Items highlighted in bold on Wikipedia.
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Introduction
Learning Outcomes
Overview
Global Seismology Poster (Both Sides)
What is an Earthquake?
Where and when did it occur?
1755 Lisbon, Portugal
1755 Boston (Cape Ann)
1783 Calabria, Italy
Lyell v1 Chapter 24
Lyell v1 Chapter 25
Visual Represntatin in Eighteenth Century EQ Studies
Boston 1755.pdf
What are seismic waves?
What can we learn from them?
Seismometer
1811–12 New Madrid earthquakes
1886 Charleston, South Carolina
Fact Sheet 09-3071
New Madrid Earthquake Sequence
20 Cool Facts about the NMSZ
1886 Charleston Earthquake Circular 985
What happens to a city in an Earthquake?
Lawson Commission Report:
Volume I
Volume I Part 2
Volume II
How did the 1906 Earthquake Occur?
When will we hava another one?
Harry Fielding Reid
HF Reid Handout
Structure of the Earth
Richter magnitude scale
Mercalli intensity scale
Moment magnitude scale
Locate Underground Nuclear Tests
2017 North Korean nuclear test
Focal mechanism
Distinquish Earthquakes from bomb tests
1964 Alaska Earthquake
Alaska 1964 Regional effects pp. 543
Alaska 2002 Earthquake.pdf
Seafloor Spreading
Vine–Matthews–Morley hypothesis
HF Reid Handout
Plate tectonics
Transform fault
Fracture zone
TDP Booklet
Front and Back
seismicity_hr.pdf
US_seismicity.pdf
Fact Sheet 08-3017_508.pdf
Fact Sheet 08-3018_508.pdf
Aggawal & Sykes.pdf
Barstow C-L fault.pdf
NE EQs Fact Sheet 0006-01.pdf
Fletcher & Sykes.pdf
G.K. Gilbert EQs.pdf
Turcotte EQ Prediction.pdf
Precursors.pdf
Kerr Animal EQ Prediction.pdf
1989 Loma Preata earthquake
Loma Prieta 1045
Earthquake prediction
Earthquake forecasting
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
Boxing Day Sumatra 20041226.pdf
2011-04-05 Japan EQ.pdf
Igneous rock
Bowen's reaction series
Boxing Day Sumatra 20041226.pdf
2011-04-05 Japan EQ.pdf
Orphan Tsunami pp 1707
Igneous rock
Bowen's reaction series
Eruption of Kilauea 1959-60
Phase Diagram Drill
PlagFracXlation
PlagPartialMelt
PlagPhaseDiagram
1963 Surtsey
1973 Heimaey - Eldfell eruption
2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull
Heimaey
Hydration melting
Tambora, Krakatoa, Toba
Toba Bottleneck Ambrose
1980 Mount St. Helens
1783 Laki
1991 Mount Pinatubo
1600 Peru Eruption
Volcanic woes may hav contributed...
Robock Volcanoes & climate 1998 and 2013
Laki
There will be two one-hour-long Graded Learning Opportunities, each worth 25% of your grade, and a two-hour Final Graded Learning Opportunity, worth 50% of your grade. Exams will try to probe your understanding and comprehension of the material. (See Learning Outcomes.)
This syllabus represents my plan for the semester as of the first day of the semester. It is subject to change at my discretion. If you desire to see it modified to include additional material, or omit material which you believe has been adequately covered in some other course, please bring this to my attention as soon as possible.
Please note that attendance is not required. If you attend class, it is expected that you are there to learn what is being discussed. Therefore, if you need to write a paper, surf the web, text message your friends, or engage in other activities which are not part of our classroom discussion, please do not come to class.
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