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Practical Course in Seismology - NGEO011

Title:	Praktikum ze seismologie
Guaranteed by:	Department of Geophysics (32-KG)
Faculty:	Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual:	from 2016
Semester:	summer
E-Credits:	3
Hours per week, examination:	summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity:	unlimited
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
State of the course:	taught
Language:	Czech, English
Teaching methods:	full-time
Teaching methods:	full-time

Guarantor:	RNDr. Vladimír Plicka, Ph.D. RNDr. Jaromír Janský, CSc.
Classification:	Physics > Geophysics

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Annotation -

Last update: T_KG (16.05.2001)

Introduction into seismographs theory; seismograms processing; seismic stations network; earhquake location and mechanism.

Aim of the course -

Last update: PLICKA/MFF.CUNI.CZ (11.04.2008)

Tha aim of this course is to introduce the students into the observation practice (seismograph types, data processing, cooperation with the data centers)

Course completion requirements - Czech

Last update: prof. RNDr. František Gallovič, Ph.D. (10.06.2019)

Podmínkou udělení zápočtu je aktivní účast na semináři.

Povaha kontroly studia předmětu vylučuje opravné termíny zápočtu.

Literature - Czech

Last update: RNDr. Pavel Zakouřil, Ph.D. (05.08.2002)

B. Bolt, Earthquakes, W.H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco 1978.

O. Kulhánek, Anatomy of Seismograms, Elsevier 1990.

F. Scherbaum, Basic Concepts in Digital Signal Processing for Seismologists, Springer-Verlag, 1994.

http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov

http://orfeus.knmi.nl

http://seis30.karlov.mff.cuni.cz

Teaching methods -

Last update: T_KG (11.04.2008)

Practicals

Syllabus -

Last update: T_KG (07.05.2002)

Seismic station Prague

History of the station; instaled seismographs; UK MFF stations in Greece; Czech seismic stations

Seismographs

Priciple, types and parameters; transfer function (poles and zeroes); frequency and impulse response

Seismograms

Reading of analog and digital records (program SCREAM), output formats (GCF, SAC, ASCII); Seismogram convolution and deconvolution, filtration, spectra, component rotation, phase polarization (program PITSA)

Wave kinematics

The models of the medium: planar and spherical (JB, IASP91), velocity-depth gradients and discontinuities; body main and supplementary wave phases, epicentral distance, travel-time curves (program TTIME), azimuth; Wiechert-Herglotz method, Tau method; dispersion of surface waves

Earthquake location

Global, regional and local networks; earthquake position, origin time and depth; linearisation of the problem, Geiger's method, program HYPO, Master event method, grid search

Wave dynamics

Earthquake intensity; magnitude; scalar seismic moment; corner frequency

Seismic source

Focal mechanism (first motion polarities, amplitude spectra and polarities - program ASPO); Apparent source time function; empirical Green's funtions

Data centers and Internet

National Earthquake Information Center; International Seismological Center; Observatories and Research Facilities for European Seismology; Swiss Seismological Service

Literature:

B. Bolt, Earthquakes, W.H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco 1978.

O. Kulhánek, Anatomy of Seismograms, Elsevier 1990.

F. Scherbaum, Basic Concepts in Digital Signal Processing for Seismologists, Springer-Verlag, 1994.

http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov

http://orfeus.knmi.nl

http://seis30.karlov.mff.cuni.cz