COURSE UNIT TITLE

: EXPLORATION OF ANCIENT EARTHQUAKES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
DEP 5016 EXPLORATION OF ANCIENT EARTHQUAKES ELECTIVE 2 0 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

EARTHQUAKE MANAGEMENT
EARTHQUAKE MANAGEMENT (Non-Thesis)

Course Objective

The aim of this course to give knowledge about geological records earthquakes occured in historical, pre-historical and geological times without seismic records for coming from difference disciplines

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   The ability to explain the geological origin of the earthquakes
2   The ability to understand the ancient earthquakes from geological data
3   the ability to analysis the damages of the ancient destructive eartquakes to the human
4   The ability to evaluate the damages the decreasing actions for earthquakes of the feature
5   The ability to comprehend about earthquake risks

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Sedimentary rocks and bedding
2 Concept of geological time
3 Earthquake classification
4 Seismogenic soft sediment deformations and seismites
5 Seismogenic brittle deformations structures
6 Tsunami and tsunami deposits
7 Paleoseismologic methods
8 Major earthquakes
9 Paper presentations of the students
10 Paper presentations of the students
11 Paper presentations of the students
12 Paper presentations of the students
13 Paper presentations of the students
14 Paper presentations of the students

Recomended or Required Reading

Y.Kanaori (Editor) 1997. Earhquake Proof Design and Active Faults. Elsevier Publ., 282
pages
Susan Elizabeth Hough, 2004. Earthshaking Science. Princeton University Publ., 265
pages.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Lectures
2. Paper reading and presentation

Assessment Methods

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


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ugur.inci@deu.edu.tr
02323017317

Office Hours

Wednesday 13.00 - 15.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 8 2 16
Preparation for final exam 1 68 68
Preparing presentations 1 55 55
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 8 7 56
Final 1 5 5
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 200

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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