Lecture Schedule

  1. Introduction (Week 1 and 2)
    1. course overview
      seismic waveform data, regional/upper-mantle/teleseismic distances and their characters
      synthetic seismogram
      linear filter theory
    2. seismic instrumentation
      instrument response
    3. earthquake source representation, stress glut, equivalent force, moment tensor
      displacement produced by point force in uniform whole space, near field, far field, P and S waves.
    4. dislocation model, double-couple
      double-couple source in whole space, intermediate field, radiation pattern
    5. near field and permanent displacement observations of the 1994 Bolivia deep earthquake (Jiao et al., 1995; Zhu, 2002)
      Observation of near field at teleseismic distances (Vidale et al., 1995)
  2. Modeling regional seismic waveforms (Week 3-7)
    1. Static and dynamic deformation produce by point source in layered media (Zhu and Rivera, 2002)
    2. Using FK code to compute synthetic seismogram.
    3. CAP source inversion (Zhu and Helmberger, 1996);  2002 Evansville Eq. (HW1)
    4. Generalized Ray Theory (Helmberger, 1983)
           Cagniard-de Hoop method, explosion in fluid whole space
           Sandwiched fluid layers,  generalized rays and reflection/transmission coef., receiver function
           Two fluid half-space case, head wave (HW2)
           Free surface, Rayleigh denominator, Rayleigh waves
           Crustal wave guide, source vertical radiation pattern, modeling waveform with 1-D model
           Waveform tomography with generalized rays (Song and Helmberger, BSSA, 1998)
  3. Upper-mantle distance waveforms (Week 8-10)
    1. travel-time triplications.
    2. using GRT to compute upper-mantle distance synthetics. Modeling the 1999 Mexic Eq. (HW3)
  4. Teleseismic waveforms (Week 11-13)
    1. Introduction; construction of teleseismic body waves; source equalization and receiver function.
    2. RF inversion for  1-D velocity model (Ammon et al. 1990); Joint inversion.
    3. Dipping interfaces (Zhu et al., 1995)
    4. H-k stacking for crustal thickness and Poisson's ratio (Zhu and Kanamori, 2000)
    5. CCP stacking (Zhu, 2000)
  5. Core phases (Week 14-15)
  6. Final exam: presentation on Wed., 12/11; paper due Friday, 12/13