EASC 338 — Earthquake Seismology and Disaster Risk Reduction
Earth Science · University of Ghana
Lectures covers the following: earthquake seismology, earthquake mechanics, wave propagation, earth structure, instrumentation, interpretation of seismograms, focal mechanisms, faults, paleoseismology, seismotectonics, earthquake locations and magnitudes, etc. Earthquake hazard assessment including use of fault and earthquake history, strong ground motion, attenuation, and related information. Laboratory work will focus on the interpretation and analyses of digital earthquake data using digital and analog seismograms, analyses of local earthquake data on a workstation, plotting and interpretation of earthquake record sections, interpretation of paper record seismograms, and spectral analyses of strong ground motion records and probabilistic risk assessment.
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Level 300
- Semester
- Semester Two
Other courses on this programme
- EASC 310 — Geological Field Methods II
- EASC 317 — Environmental Geochemistry
- EASC 321 — Environmental Pollution
- EASC 323 — Soil Mechanics
- EASC 324 — Economic Geology
- EASC 325 — Fundamentals of Hydrogeology and Hydrology
- EASC 326 — Aerial Photo Interpretation
- EASC 328 — Structural Geology and Tectonics
- EASC 331 — Computer Applications in the Earth Sciences
- EASC 332 — Introduction to Petroleum Geology
- EASC 333 — Environmental Impact Assessment
- EASC 334 — Organic Geochemistry
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 3 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Sciences (2017).