Geol 100 - Earthquakes and Earth Structure

Class overview

This series of lectures on seismology fundamentals is meant for first-year university students. The six lectures are meant to take 6 to 12 hours to deliver, depending on how comprehensive the coverage is meant to be. These lectures have been given as part of both Geol 100 - Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Natural Disasters for non-geosciences majors, and Geol 101 - General Geology I for Geological Sciences majors at UNR. The modules include examples of logarithms, exponents, scientific notation, and dimensional analysis.

The purpose of making the earthquake modules of our introductory Geology course available to all is to better inform the public about earthquake processes and effects. All of the text here, and some of the diagrams were authored by John Louie. All of the materials here that were authored by John Louie have been put into the Public Domain, so are free for any use without attribution. Many of Louie's diagrams have a PDF version you can get by clicking on the image.