Local Earthquake Analysis

Course Description

Practical analyses of seismograms obtained by local network.

Lecturer

Nobuo HURUKAWA (IISEE)

Days

4 day(s)

Syllabus

(1) Event detection and phase picking

  1. Event detection
  2. Picking P and S phases

(2) Wadati Diagram

  1. Wadati Diagram
  2. Origin Time
  3. Hypocentral Distance
  4. Vp/Vs Ratio

(3) Particle Motion

  1. Particle Motion
  2. Incident Angle

(4) Apparent Velocity

  1. Apparent Velocity
  2. Application of Apparent Velocity

(5) Hypocenter Determination

  1. Graphical Method
  2. Calculative Method
  3. Computer Program: HYPOCENTER

(6) Magnitude

  1. Velocity Amplitude Magnitude
  2. F-P Magnitude

Lecture Notes

Lecture ID# Note description Author Slide
Lecture #1 lecture textbook Nobuo HURUKAWA LectureNote(Practical Analyses of Local Earthquakes)201212_for2013.pdf

Lecture note files of this course can be downloaded.