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Prize-Winning Seismologist Embraces Earth's Little Faults
2008-03-20 15:24:00 'Seismologists say their science can be easily divided into two eras: before and after Hiroo Kanamori.'Dr. Hiroo Kanamori discusses his innovations in earthquake measurements and early-warning systems at his Kyoto Prize presentation at the University of California at San Diego this week. A California Institute of Technology professor emeritus and newly christened Kyoto Prize honoree, Kanamori led the earthquake research that resulted in the moment-magnitude scale, a better way to measure quakes than the Richter scale it replaced in the 1970s. The moment-magnitude scale is not a pure instrument measurement. It accounts for the area of land that ruptures in a quake and how far it moves.Today Kanamori is interested in a different kind of moment: the first moments of an earthquake, when long-period waves can give warning of the intensity and damage to come. Kanamori sees an opportunity to use those few seconds of lead time to protect lives and property from catastrophe. He now commits...
Seismology
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Seismology
2008-01-28 17:51:00 More about Seismology on WikipediaBridge Engineering Seismic Designby W.F.ChenDownloadThe Seismic Design Handbookby Farzad Naeim DownloadSeismic Behavior and Design of Steel Shear Walls by Abolhassan Astaneh-AslDownloadElastic Waves in Random Media Fundamentals of Seismic Stratigraphic Filtering by Serge A. ShapiroDownloadGeotechnical Earthquake Engineering Handbookby Robert W. Day DownloadDynamics of Structures Theory and Applications to Earthquake Engineeringby Anil K. Chopra Download
PhD in Seismology and Geodynamics
2007-09-11 21:17:00 ETH Zurich, Switzerland The Geophysics Institute at ETH-Zurich invites applications for two Ph.D. student positions in seismology and geodynamics. The successful candidates will study regional-scale seismic tomography, including its implications for geodynamics, applied to Europe and the mediterranean basin. This research project emphasizes application of innovative techniques in seismology, including finite-frequency (”banana-doughnut”- ) tomography, and interferometric ...
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