2024 Summer Session D 6 weeks, July 1 - August 9

EPS 20 002 - LEC 002

Formerly Geophysics 20

Earthquakes in Your Backyard

Noha Farghal

Jul 01, 2024 - Aug 09, 2024

Mo, We

01:00 pm - 03:29 pm

Internet/Online

Class #:14458

Units: 3

Instruction Mode: Online
Time Conflict Enrollment Allowed

Offered through Earth and Planetary Science

How to apply

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 12

Enrolled: 104

Waitlisted: 0

Capacity: 116

Waitlist Max: 25

No Reserved Seats

Hours & Workload

5 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, and 17.5 hours of outside work hours per week.

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.