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