Earthquake Seismology

Syllabus:  

  • Elements of elasticity theory- stress and strain tensors, 
  • Generalized Hooke’s Law; 
  • Body and Surface Waves; Rotational, dilatational, irrorational and equivolumnal waves.
  • Reflection and refraction of elastic waves
  • Inhomogenous and evanescent waves and bounded waves;
  • Eikonal Equation and Ray theory; 
  • earthquakes-causes and measurements, 
  • magnitude and intensity,
  • focal mechanisms; 
  • earthquake quantification, source characteristics, 
  • seismotectonics and seismic hazards; 
  • digital seismographs, 
  • Earthquake statistics, 
  • wave propogation in elastic media, 
  • quantifying earthquake source from seismological data.
  • Elements of Seismic Tomography.