EPS C20: Earthquakes in Your Backyard (Fall 2014, UC Berkeley): Lecture 13

EPS C20: Earthquakes in Your Backyard

EPS C20: Earthquakes in Your Backyard (Fall 2014, UC Berkeley). Instructor: Professor Richard Allen. This course provides an introduction to earthquakes, their causes and effects. General discussion of basic principles and methods of seismology and geological tectonics, distribution of earthquakes in space and time, effects of earthquakes, and earthquake hazard and risk, with particular emphasis on the situation in California.

Lecture 13 - Interpreting Seismograms

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Lecture 01 - California and Earthquakes

Lecture 02 - Future Earthquakes: The Hayward Temblor, Part I

Lecture 03 - Future Earthquakes: The Hayward Temblor, Part II

Lecture 04 - Case Study: Hurricane Katrina - Lessons to Learn

Lecture 05 - Earthquake Preparedness

Lecture 06 - Faults: The Product of Earthquakes

Lecture 07 - Case Study: The Hayward Fault

Lecture 08 - Case Study: The Great 1906 Earthquake and Firestorm

Lecture 09 - Where Earthquakes Occur

Lecture 10 - Plate Tectonics