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| SEC 421 | Seismogram Analysis | 2+0+0 | ECTS:3 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of GEOPHYSICAL ENGINEERING | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face, Practical | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 2 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | -- | | Co-Lecturer | None | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | principle introduction about reading to seismograms and made apply analysis |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | introduction the propagations of body and surface waves | 1,2 | 1,4 | | LO - 2 : | reading the digital and analog earthqauke records | 4,5 | 1,4 | | LO - 3 : | make the determination of earthquake parameters on seismograms | 2,4,5 | 1,4,6 | | LO - 4 : | make the analysis of seismological problems accordind to the seismogram analysis | 2,4,8,10 | 1,4,6 | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| propagation feature body and surface waves, particular motion and velocities, short and long area wave phases and their propagations, travel time curves, digital and analog earthquake phases, first arrivals of body and surfave waves, time and phase determine, velocity and displacement records, low and deep records, analysis of seismological problems |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Criteria and parameters for routine seismogram analysis | | | Week 2 | Record duration and dispersion | | | Week 3 | Key parameters; Onset time, amplitude, period and polarity | | | Week 4 | Advanced wavelet parameter reporting from digital records | | | Week 5 | Criteria to be used for phase identification | | | Week 6 | Travel time and slowness | | | Week 7 | Amplitudes, dominating periods and waveforms, Polarization | | | Week 8 | Example for documenting and reporting of seismogram parameter readings | | | Week 9 | Criteria to be used in event identification and discrimination | | | Week 10 | Discrimination between shallow and deep earthquakes | | | Week 11 | Discrimination between natural earthquakes and man-made seismic events | | | Week 12 | Quick event identification and location by means of single-station three-component recordings | | | Week 13 | What is the best way of analyzing three-component seismograms? | | | Week 14 | Hypocenter location, Hypocenter location by means of network and array recordings, Magnitude determination | | | Week 15 | Routine signal processing of digital seismograms | | | Week 16 | Signal detection, Signal filtering, restitution and simulation, Signal coherency at networks and arrays | | | |
| 1 | Kulhanek, O.,1990, Anatomy of Seismograms, Elsevier. | | | 2 | Shearer P.M., 1999, Introduction to Seismology, Cambridge Univ. Pres. | | | 3 | Bolt, B.A., 1999, Earthquakes, W.H.Freeman and Company, USA. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 8 | 17/11/2011 | 1,5 | 30 | | Quiz | 10 | 10/11/2011 | 3 | 10 | | Homework/Assignment/Term-paper | 12 | 29/12/2011 | 3 | 10 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 17/01/2012 | 1,5 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 2 | 14 | 28 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 5 | 10 | 50 | | Laboratuar çalışması | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 5 | 1 | 5 | | Arasınav | 5 | 1 | 5 | | Uygulama | 3 | 3 | 9 | | Klinik Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Ödev | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Proje | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Kısa sınav | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 5 | 1 | 5 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Diğer 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Diğer 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Total work load | | | 103 |
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