Syllabus

Course Meeting Times

Lectures: 3 sessions / week, 1 hour / session

Recitations: 1 session / week, 1 hour / session

Prerequisites

Advanced Calculus for Engineers (18.075) or Mathematical Methods for Engineers I (18.085). This is a graduate-level class, but is open to undergraduates.

Overview

This course constitutes a broad overview of observational and theoretical seismology and the utilization of seismic waves for the study of the Earth's interior. Topics include elastic wave propagation, seismic ray theory, interpretation of travel times, finite frequency effects, surface wave dispersion, and seismic tomography.

Textbook

Stein, S., and M. Wysession. An Introduction to Seismology, Earthquakes, and Earth Structure. 1st ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell, September 2002. ISBN: 9780865420786.

Homework

There are 4 homework assignments for this course based on the lecture material. Some require raw data analysis in MATLAB®.

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