Università Roma Tre

THE COURSE AIMS TO INTRODUCE THE STUDENTS TO SEISMOLOGY AND GEODESY AND THEIR APPLICATIONS BOTH FOR STUDYING THE SOURCE THAN FOR STUDIES OF THE EARTH’S INTERIOR STRUCTURE. STUDENTS WILL ACQUIRE KNOWLEDGE OF THE GENERATION OF EARTHQUAKES, OF WAVE PROPAGATION, OF MAIN SEISMIC PHASES AND THEIR USE TO STUDY EARTH’S INTERIOR, OF CRUSTAL DEFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH THE SEISMIC CYCLE AND OF THE RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH SEISMIC ACTIVITY.
THE COURSE INCLUDES A PRACTICAL PART (USING SAC, SEISMIC ANALYSIS SOFTWARE) ON THE PROCESSING OF SEISMIC DATA THAT DEAL WITH THE SIGNAL ANALYSIS IN FREQUENCY AND THE RECOGNITION OF SEISMIC PHASES. IT IS ALSO PLANNED A VISIT TO THE MONITORING SYSTEM OF THE ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA.