541-0904/01 – Applied Seismology (AS)

Gurantor department	Department of Geological Engineering	Credits	0
Subject guarantor	Ing. Aleš Poláček, CSc.	Subject version guarantor	doc. RNDr. Libuše Hofrichterová, CSc.
Study level	postgraduate	Requirement	Optional
Year		Semester	winter + summer
		Study language	Czech
Year of introduction	1996/1997	Year of cancellation	2009/2010
Intended for the faculties	HGF	Intended for study types	Doctoral

Instruction secured by
Login	Name	Tuitor	Teacher giving lectures
HOF20	doc. RNDr. Libuše Hofrichterová, CSc.
POL06	Ing. Aleš Poláček, CSc.

Extent of instruction for forms of study
Form of study	Way of compl.	Extent
Full-time	Credit and Examination	2+0
Part-time	Credit and Examination	35+0
Distance	Credit and Examination	10+0

Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences

Graduates of the course can handle the processing of seismological data. Determination of the parameters of the Seismological pulse at the point of registration and at the place of its origin.

Teaching methods

Lectures
Individual consultations

Summary

Theory of seismic waves. Ways of earthquake waves registration , seismogram processing – determation of the seismic focus and the earthquake mechanism. Assessment of reliability of earthquake prognosis. Principles of the microseimological methods a seismic effects assessment of blasting explosives and gas blow-out, main principles of seismic zoning and microzoning.

Compulsory literature:

New Manual of Seismological Observatory Practice, Volume I,II Peter Borman, GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam 2002 Shearer, P. M. (1999): Introduction to seismology. Cambridge Univ. Pr., 304 pages Bolt, B. A. (1993): Earthquakes and Geological Discovery. W.H. Freeman § Co., 229 pages Sato, H. et al. (1997): Seismic Wave Propagation and Scattering in the Heterogeneous Earth. Springer Verlag, 320 pages

Recommended literature:

Bolt, B. A. (1999): Earthquakes (4th Ed.). W.H. Freeman § Co., Keller, E. A., Pinter, N. (1995): Active Tectonics:Earthquakes, Uplift and Landscape. Prentice Hall, 338 pages

Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester

E-learning

Other requirements

Prerequisities

Subject has no prerequisities.

Co-requisities

Subject has no co-requisities.

Subject syllabus:

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Conditions for subject completion

Full-time form (validity from: 1960/1961 Summer semester, validity until: 2012/2013 Summer semester)

Task name	Type of task	Max. number of points (act. for subtasks)	Min. number of points	Max. počet pokusů
Exercises evaluation and Examination	Credit and Examination	100 (145)	51	3
Examination	Examination	100	0	3
Exercises evaluation	Credit	45	0	3

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Occurrence in study plans

Academic year	Programme	Branch/spec.	Form	Study language	Tut. centre	Type of duty
2009/2010	(P2110) Geological Engineering	(2101V003) Geological Engineering	P	Czech	Ostrava	Optional	study plan
2009/2010	(P2110) Geological Engineering	(2101V003) Geological Engineering	K	Czech	Ostrava	Optional	study plan
2008/2009	(P2110) Geological Engineering	(2101V003) Geological Engineering	K	Czech	Ostrava	Optional	study plan
2008/2009	(P2110) Geological Engineering	(2101V003) Geological Engineering	P	Czech	Ostrava	Optional	study plan

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