- Docente: Paolo Gasperini
- Credits: 6
- SSD: GEO/10
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Paolo Gasperini (Modulo 1) Alberto Armigliato (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- 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 knows the phenomenology and the main data that characterize the great earthquakes and seismic cycles and learns the methods of seismic hazard assessment.
Course contents
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
Non instrumental Seismology
Focal Mechanisms
Seismic hazard and risk
Readings/Bibliography
Sismologia
E. Boschi - M. Dragoni
Lecture notes
Teaching methods
Class lectures
Assessment methods
Oral exam
Teaching tools
Computer presentations
Office hours
See the website of Paolo Gasperini
See the website of Alberto Armigliato