Chapter 1: Introduction (2 hours)
Earthquake and seismology, the contents and applications of the seismology, history of the
seismology
Chapter 2: Stress and Strain (4 hours)
Stress tensor, strain tensor, linear stress-strain relationship, review of basic vector
calculus (Appendix B.1)
Chapter 3: Seismic wave equations (6 hours)
Moment equation, seismic wave equation, plane wave solution, characters of the basic
solutions, spherical wave solution, numerical methods of the seismic wave equation
Chapter 4: Ray theory: Travel times (6 hours)
Snell law, seismic ray in 1D model, seismic ray in 1D spherical model, seismic ray in 3D
model, ray nomenclature, local seismic phase propagates in the crust, teleseismic phases
propagate in the deep structures
Chapter 5: Inversion of travel time data (4 hours)
Traveltime inversion for 1D model, traveltime inversion for 3D model, earthquake location
Chapter 6: Physical and chemical properties of the Earth (2 hours)
The structure of the Earth and how seismic methods help to determine the Earth structure
Chapter 7: Ray theory: Amplitude and phase (4 hours)
Energy in seismic waves, geometrical spreading, reflection and transmission coefficients,
matrix methods for medeling plane waves, attenuation
Chapter 8: Reflection seismology (4 hours)
Seismic acquisition, common midpoint stacking, migration, velocity analysis, receiver
functions
Chapter 9: Surface waves and normal modes (4 hours)
Love waves, Rayleigh waves, dispersion, global surface waves, normal modes
Chapter 10: Earthquake and source theory (4 hours)
Green’s functions, earthquake faults, radiation patterns and beach balls, far-field pulse
shape, stress drop, earthquake magnitude, finite slip modeling
Chapter 11: Earthquake hazards and seismicity (2 hours)
Seismic intensity, seismicity, earthquake belts in China
Chapter 12: Earthquake prediction and earthquake early warning system (4 hours)
The earthquake cycle, earthquake triggering, searching for precursors, are earthquake
unpredictable, early warning system
Chapter 13: Instruments (2 hours)
Theory of the instruments, modern seismographs, Earth noise
Chapter 14: Complexity of the Earth and developments of the seismology (2 hours)
3D heterogeneity, anisotropy, visco-elasticity, porosity, Viscoplasticity, nonlinearity of