Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Docente: Enzo Boschi
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: GEO/10
  • Language: Italian
  • Moduli: Enzo Boschi (Modulo 1) Paolo Gasperini (Modulo 2) Michele Dragoni (Modulo 3)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2) Traditional lectures (Modulo 3)
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Physics of the Earth System (cod. 8626)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student will possess basic knowledge concerning the phenomenological description of large earthquakes and the main data which characterize them and the seismic cycles; they will be introduced also to methods of seismic hazard assessment.

Course contents

Module 1 (Prog. Enzo Boschi)

Representation of the seismic source

Point source

Finite source

Haskel model

Elastic waye propagation

Reflextion and trasmission of elastic waves on discontinuity surfaces

Surface waves

 

Module 2 (Prof. Paolo Gasperini)

Non instrumental Seismology 

Focal Mechanisms

Seismic hazard and risk

 

Module 3 (Prof. Michele Dragoni)

Systems of forces in an elastic medium.

Calculation of the Somigliana tensor.

Dislocations. Volterra formula.

Elastic waves. Lamé's theorem.

Calculation of the Green tensor of elastomynamics.

Readings/Bibliography

Sismologia

E. Boschi - M. Dragoni

 

Lecture notes

Teaching methods

Class lectures

Assessment methods

Oral

Office hours

See the website of Enzo Boschi

See the website of Paolo Gasperini

See the website of Michele Dragoni