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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type Of Course	D	U	L	ECTS
GPE 5040	COMPUTER- AIDED SEISMOLOGY	ELECTIVE	2	2	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 ELÇIN GÖK

Offered to

Geophysical Engineering
GEOPHYSICAL ENGINEERING

Course Objective

Main targets of this course are to perform computer-aided seismological analysis such as earthquake location in modern seismology, analysis of earthquake catalogue, focal mechanisms solutions, stress tensor analysis, analysis of earthquake and ambient noise data, transforms and filters in with Seismic Analysis Code (SAC) and SEISAN software.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1	To be able to define common softwares in seismology
2	To be able to analyse earthquake location and catalogue analysis with computer
3	To be able to compute focal mechanisms in computing environment
4	To be able to perform computer-aided stress tensor analysis
5	To be able to perform seismological data-analysis in time and frequency domain
6	To be able to analysis earthquake and ambient noise data

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week	Subject	Description
1	Seismological computings and softwares used in seismology
2	Earthquake location
3	Performing of computer-aided earthquake location (SEISAN)	Homework/Project
4	Process of event catalogue
5	Analysis of event catalogue	Presentation / Project
6	Focal mechanism solution techniques
7	Computing of computer-aided focal mechanism solutions	Presentation / Project
8	Coulomb stress tensor analysis with seismological data
9	Determination of computer-aided stress tensor analysis	Presentation / Project
10	Presentation of Homeworks/Projects
11	Seismological data analysis in time and frequency domain (SAC)
12	Filtering and transforming processes with SAC	Presentation
13	Earthquake data
14	Analysis of earthquake data	Take Final Project (will be prepared as report)

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s):
- Havskov, J. and Ottemoller, L. (2010). Routine Data Processing in Earthquake Seismology with Sample Data, Exercises and Software, Springer Publ. Dordrecht, New York, ISBN 978-90-481-8696-9, 380 p.

Supplementary Book(s):
- Dargahi-Noubary, G.R., (2008). Time Series with Applications to Seismology, Nova Publ., ISBN 1-56072-610-5, 256 p.
- Lee, W., Jennings, P., Kisslinger, C. and Kanamori, H., (2002). International Handbook of Earthquake & Engineering Seismology - Part A, ISBN 978-01-244-0652-0, 1320 p.
- Lee, W., Kanamori, H., Jennings, P. and Kisslinger, C., (2003). International Handbook of Earthquake & Engineering Seismology - Part B, ISBN 978-01-244-0658-2, 1200 p.

References:
- Papers related to course syllabus

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER	SHORT CODE	LONG CODE	FORMULA
1	ASG	ASSIGNMENT
2	PRS	PRESENTATION
3	FCG	FINAL COURSE GRADE	ASG * 0.50 + PRS * 0.50

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Homework and Research: %50 (LO2, LO3, LO4)
Final Exam: %50 (LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4, LO5, LO6)

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Learning new seismological software.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

elcin.gok@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Friday: 15h00 - 17h00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures	13	2	26
Tutorials	13	2	26
Preparation for midterm exam	1	17	17
Preparation for final exam	1	30	30
Preparing assignments	4	7	28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures	14	3	42
Preparing presentations	4	6	24
Final	1	4	4
Midterm	1	4	4
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			201

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO	PO.1	PO.2	PO.3	PO.4	PO.6	PO.7	PO.8	PO.10	PO.11	PO.12	PO.13
LO.1	4	4	4	3	4	4	4	4	5	4	4
LO.2	5	5	5	3	5	4	5	4	5	5	5
LO.3	5	5	5	3	5	4	5	3	5	5	5
LO.4	5	5	5	3	5	4	5		5	5	5
LO.5	5	5	5	3	5	4	5	2	4	5	5
LO.6	5	5	5	3	5	4	5		4	5	5

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Description of Individual Course Units

Offered By

Level of Course Unit

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Course Objective

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

Recomended Optional Programme Components

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Assessment Criteria

Language of Instruction

Course Policies and Rules

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Office Hours

Work Placement(s)

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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