COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ADVANCED SEISMOLOGY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
GPE 5025 ADVANCED SEISMOLOGY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MEHMET UTKU

Offered to

Geophysical Engineering
GEOPHYSICAL ENGINEERING

Course Objective

The course aims to be learn of the main techniques of the Advanced Seismology as both the theoretical and practical.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to define the earthquake waves
2   To be able to define the ray theory
3   To be able to define the wave equation
4   To be able to define ray tracing methods
5   To be able to define the inversion in seismology
6   To be able to define the synthetical seismograms
7   To be able to discuss the Earth's free oscillations

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction: seismic waves, departure from isotropy-perfect elasticity-homogeneity, stratified models. Homework-1: The fundamental concepts and descriptions of seismology-I.
2 Ray Theory: ray method, electrodynamics equation in homogeneous media, rays, ray fields. Homework-2: The fundamental concepts and descriptions of seismology-II.
3 Reflection and Transmission at an Interface: wave equation in seismology, seismic body waves, reflection and refraction at a free surface, phase shift, inhomogeneous waves, interface waves. Homework-3: The ray responses to the miscellaneous interfaces.
4 Inversion: classical travel time inversion, inversion for structures that include LVL. Homework-4: The calculations of Eikonal, Function J, and Caustic. Homework-5: The calculation of the radius of curvature for different rays.
5 Inversion: an inversion method in seismic prospecting. Homework-6: The calculation of the wave potentials.
6 Ray Tracing: different ray tracing procedures, cell ray tracing, dynamic ray tracing. Homework-7: The calculation of reflection and transmission potentials, and their coefficients.
7 Midterm exam-1
8 Ray Tracing: different ray tracing procedures, cell ray tracing, dynamic ray tracing. Homework-8: The estimation of underground parameters using conventional inversion.
9 Synthetic Seismograms: ray theoretical method, reflectivity method, standard ray method. Homework-9: The calculation of the ray trajectories.
10 Synthetic Seismograms: paraxial ray method, Gaussian beam approach, AMM, WKBJ and Maslov seismograms.
11 Synthetic Seismograms: synthetic seismogram in seismic prospecting. Homework-10: A synthetic seismogram calculation.
12 Midterm exam-2
13 Surface Waves: surface waves, Love waves, dispersed Rayleigh/surface waves. Homework-11: The calculation of dispersion curves.
14 Free Oscillation of the Earth: fundamental modes and higher modes.

Recomended or Required Reading

1)- Kazım ERGIN
Advanced Seismology (Rays and Waves). Tübitak Marmara
Research Centre, Gebze, 1995, 263 p.

2)- Keiiti AKI, Paul G. RICHARDS
Quantitative Seismology, Theory and Methods. Vol. I,II,
W.H. Freeman and Co., San Francisco, USA, 1980, 932 p.

3)- K. E. BULLEN, Bruce A. BOLT
An Introduction to the Theory of Seismology, Fourth Edition
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1985, 499 p.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, Midterm exam, and Homework

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE 1 MIDTERM EXAM 1
2 MTE 2 MIDTERM EXAM 2
3 ASG ASSIGNMENT
4 FIN FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE 1* 0.10 + MTE 2 * 0.10 + ASG * 0.30 + FIN * 0.50
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE 1* 0.10 + MTE 2 * 0.10 + ASG * 0.30 + RST * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Midterm exam-1 (10%): LO-1,2,3,4
Midterm exam-2 (10%): LO-5,6,7
Homework (30%): LO-1,2,3,4,5,6,7
Final exam (50%): LO-1,2,3,4,5,6,7

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assist.Prof.Dr. Mehmet UTKU, mehmet.utku@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

All of times out Lecture

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Preparation for final exam 2 10 20
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Homeworks 11 10 110
Midterm 2 3 6
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 195

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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