COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SEISMOTECTONIC PRINCIPLES IN EARTHQUAKE RESEARCHES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
DEP 5011 SEISMOTECTONIC PRINCIPLES IN EARTHQUAKE RESEARCHES ELECTIVE 2 0 0 7

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

Today, some of the geology and geophysics on earthquakes all over our planet The increasing importance of issues, and these issues are discussed with them most of the time a known fact that a number of convergences tried to be established. On one hand, the location of earthquakes will occur in the future, the size and the exact time is known in advance, especially in these settlements and major industries on the other hand centers can bring in the efforts to reduce the loss of life and property, while special addition to issues related to geology and geophysics disciplines together to address are required.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   graduates from different disciplines, seismic hazard analysis and earthquake sciences be equipped with theoretical and practical knowledge in the fields concerned,
2   supports interdisciplinary research in this area, can promote To have the capacity,
3   Theoretical and practical areas of earthquake risk in the face of three co-ordination and planning able, solutions and applications to manage the skilled person to produce
4   Having the ability to contribute to the spread of four earthquake awareness in society,
5   scientific studies that can minimize the impact of a possible earthquake relevant organizations to share information and to have this work,
6   Earthquake Administration disipilinlerarası team work leading to section having the culture of

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction. What seismotectonic General information about the seismotectonic maps.
2 The formation of the Earth. Geotechnical hypotheses. Contraction theory. Expansion theory. Ossilasyon theory.
3 Geotechnical hypotheses (continued) Convection theory. The theory of continental drift.
4 Based on observations of the earthquake centers seismotectonic The geographical distribution. Belt surrounding the Pacific Ocean, Mediterranean-Transasyatik band. Other earthquake zones.
5 Earthquake depth distribution centers. Characterized in that the expansion plate boundaries. Characterized by impingement plate boundaries. Fixed plate boundaries.
6 Mc. Kenzie Model (1972). Alptekin Model (1973). Dewey-Şengör Model (1979)
7 I. Midterm
8 Fracture processes in rocks. Coulomb criterion. By Mohr. Coulomb-Navier criterion. Griffith criterion.
9 Earthquakes of magnitude-energy relationship. Instrumental magnitudes. Earthquake energy. Moment during earthquakes.
10 Source of information about the earthquake source processes the seismic signals. Elastodynamics wave propagation. Acoustic waves.
11 Seismic source types. Point sources. Suspension sources
12 Resources are finite dimensional. Unilateral tear. Bilteral tear. Radial, elliptical tear. II. EXAM
13 II. Midterm
14 What is the Source Mechanism Solution Basic principles. Practical application. Practical application.

Recomended or Required Reading

Aki, K. & Richards, P.G. (1980). Quantitative seismology, Volume I., W.H. Freeman and
Company, San Francisco.
Brinkmann, R. (1972). Lehrbuch der allgemeinen Geologie, 2. Band, 579 p., Ferdinand-
Enke Verlag, Stuttgart.
Canıtez, N. (1983). Levha Tektoniği, 798 s., I.T.Ü. Maden Fakültesi Ofset Baskı
Atölyesi, Istanbul.
Kasahara, K. (1981). Earthquake mechanics, 248 p.. Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge.
Müller, G. (1973). Theorie elastischer Wellen, 183 p., Geophysikalisches Institut der
Universitaet Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe.
Press, F. & Siever, R (1982). Earth, 3. Edition, 613 p., W.H. Freeman and Company, San
Francisco.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

presentation
homework

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


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)

atilla.ulug@deu.edu.tr
0 232 278 5565

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparation for midterm exam 2 20 40
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 6 72
Final 1 4 4
Midterm 2 3 6
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 170

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12
LO.155
LO.255
LO.3555
LO.4555
LO.5555
LO.6555