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Quantitative seismology

By: Aki, KeiitiContributor(s): Richards, Paul GMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New York: University Science Books, 2002 Edition: 2nd edDescription: xviii,700p. PbkISBN: 9781891389634Subject(s): Seismology -- MathematicsDDC classification: 550.34 Summary: This new edition of the classic text by Aki and Richards has at last been updated throughout to systematically explain key concepts in seismology. Now in one volume, the book provides a unified treatment of seismological methods that will be of use to advanced students, seismologists, and scientists and engineers working in all areas of seismology.
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Basic Theorems in Dynamic Elasticity
3. Representation of Seismic Sources
4. Elastic Waves from a Point Dislocation Source
5. Plane Waves in Homogeneous Media and Their Reflection and Transmission at a Plane Boundary
6. Reflection and Refraction of Spherical Waves; Lamb’s Problem
7. Surface Waves in a Vertically Heterogeneous Medium
8. Free Oscillations of the Earth
9. Body Waves in Media with Depth-Dependent Properties
10. The Seismic Source: Kinematics
11. The Seismic Source: Dynamics
12. Principles of Seismometry
Appendix 1: Glossary of Waves
Appendix 2: Definition of Magnitudes
Index

This new edition of the classic text by Aki and Richards has at last been updated throughout to systematically explain key concepts in seismology. Now in one volume, the book provides a unified treatment of seismological methods that will be of use to advanced students, seismologists, and scientists and engineers working in all areas of seismology.

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