27 Aug 15

Fall Semester
2015
Horst Rademacher
HH
Lect 1: Class
Organization
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Instructor
Horst Rademacher - horst@berkeley.edu
Office hours: Tuesdays 2-4 pm
Where: 213 McCone Hall or BSL Conference Room (2nd floor McCone)

GSIs:

Cheng Cheng - cchengster@berkeley.edu

Office hours: Tuesdays 1-2 pm, Fridays 10-11 am Sign up on
Where: 241 McCone

Zach Carango - zcarango@berkeley.edu w ith one

Office hours: Mondays 11-12 pm, Wednesdays 3:30-4:30 pm
Where: BSL Conference Room (2nd floor McCone) of them
to fit your
Matt Hoffman - mattfhoffman@berkeley.edu
Office hours: Wednesdays 1 - 2 pm, 241 McCone
schedule !
Thursdays 3-4 pm BSL Conference Room (2nd floor McCone)
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Topics and Calendar may be updated if required,
Syllabus is posted on contains all relevant dates

Lecture notes
Power Point slides will be posted as PDFs after each class

Required Reading
Required reading will be posted before lectures

Suggested Reading
Textbook I: "Earthquakes" (5th edition) by Bruce
Bolt. Published by Freeman.
Experimental Textbook: Chapters will be posted as
they become available

Seismo Blog:
http://seismo.berkeley.edu/blog/seismoblog.php
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Expectations
1. Lecture attendance: Tue/Thu 11:00 am – 12:30pm
except Thanksgiving 26 Nov 15

2. Assignments: Five during the semester

• Assigned after subject of assignment is discussed in class
• Definitive due dates are on the syllabus
• Can be completed individually or in groups
You are encouraged to work together and discuss the problems,
but then you should write down your ow n answ ers

• Assignments will be posted on course website on day of assignment

3. Field trip attendance and report

Field Trip: The Hayward Fault
In small groups, four day period: Weekend 25-28 Sep 15
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4. Seismicity report Individual or Group activity

First 5-10 minutes of every Tuesday’s class,

look at past week’s seismicity:
discuss interesting events, EQ in the news, etc.

For global events:

For California events: http://ds.iris.edu/seismon/
http://earthquakes.berkeley.edu http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
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Grading
15% - Midterm (13 October)
20% - Final (16 December)
15% - Field trip & Report
50% - Assignments (due dates are on Syllabus)
Extra Credit: Seismicity report

We will grade on the curve

You will need 60% to pass the class

No late work will be accepted unless prior approval

No electronic submissions unless prior approval
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click on:

“Syllabus” for an up-to-date version of the syllabus

containing all due dates

“Assignments” to view and download assignments

“Pages” for reading materials and other helpful information

“Files” for lecture notes

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Getting help:

1. Organize yourselves into study groups

cooperate, work together
2. Read the literature, which we suggest
3. Talk to your GSI! (you need to sign-up as early as possible)
4. Talk to me in my office hours Tuesdays 2-4pm
BSL Conference Room
2nd floor McCone
Our goal is not to flunk you!
We want you to
understand, respect and appreciate earthquakes
and be properly prepared
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Please fill out a short survey:

http://seismo.berkeley.edu/~horst/webex/webex0.html

will be treated as confidential

To convert a U.S. street address

to latitude and longitude
use this link:
http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/geocode
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HH

Questions?
Motivation

Why does EPS offer this class?

1. fulfill undergraduate requirements

in physical science

2. teach you the basics about earthquakes

and tsunamis

3. want you to be prepared for earthquakes

and their aftermaths (simple test now)
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Why do I teach this class?

….in addition to the first three points…
4. to help you lose your fear of earthquakes –
but respect them as a major force of nature

5. to show that
Earth Science is fun

and…….
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…….6. to show that we are
sitting on a tectonic timebomb

It doesn’t get more 200 m = 220 yards

backyard than this

we are here
Stanley Hall
Hayward
Fault
 The Hayward Fault is the most
dangerous EQ Fault in the Bay Area

Poster design Jennifer Taggart

QuickTim e™ and a GIF decom pres s or are needed to s ee this picture.

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 Hayward Fault:
No big EQ since 1868:

Magnitude 6.8-7,
Focus under Hayward

For the last 147years

tectonic stress
is accumulating ……
…..the fault
is ready
to go……

more on the Hayward Fault

during lecture on
June 2 and field trip June 4
 What would happen?
Earthquakes: The Basics
Tohoku Earthquake, E of Honshu, Japan,
11 March 2011, M = 9.0 various clips
UC Berkeley: The only major university in the world
sitting right on top of a dangerous earthquake fault

Starting in 2003 UC spent

a billion dollars to retrofit major buildings

Some of the best research institutions

in earthquakes in the world are on campus:

…..and together we will ride out the Big One!

Tuesday:

Earthquakes: The Basics