EPS C20: Earthquakes in Your Backyard (Fall 2014, UC Berkeley) | Earth and Environmental Science

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.

California and Earthquakes

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

Lecture 11 - Building Up to an Earthquake

Lecture 12 - Generating the Wiggles

Lecture 13 - Interpreting Seismograms

Lecture 14 - Earthquake Intensity and Magnitude

Lecture 15 - Seismic Gaps and Creep

Lecture 16 - Tsunamis, Volcanoes and Earthquakes

Lecture 17 - Case Study: Deadliest Volcanoes

Lecture 18 - Earthquake Prediction

Lecture 19 - Earthquake Forecasting

Lecture 20 - Earthquake Early Warning

Lecture 21 - Case Study: Buildings: The Good and the Bad

Lecture 22 - The Berkeley Seismological Laboratory

Lecture 23 - Review: Your Charge: Planning for Disasters

References

EPS 20: Earthquakes in your backyard
Instructor: Professor Richard Allen. Lecture Notes and Reading Downloads. The goal of this class is to inform future leaders of our society about the various hazards associated with earthquakes and tsunamis.