1. komponenta

Lecture type	Total
Lectures	20
Exercises	10

* Load is given in academic hour (1 academic hour = 45 minutes)

Earthquake cycle: classical and alternative models of characteristic and random earthquakes. What controls ruptures and hypocenters: fault asperities, barriers, flats and ramps. Displacement variations along a fault, fault growth and fault segmentation. Relations between fault rupture parameters and earthquake magnitude. Keynote examples from seismically active regions in Croatia and worldwide characterized by compressional, extensional and strike-slip tectonics.

1. Stein, S., Wysession, M. (2003): An introduction to Seismology, Earthquakes and Earth Structure, Blackwell publishing.
2. Wells, D.L. & Coppersmith, K.J. (1994): New empirical Relationships among Magnitude, Rupture Length, Rupture Width, Rupture Area, and Surface Displacement.- Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., Vol. 84, No. 4, 974-1002.
3. Burbank, D.W & Anderson, R.S. (2001): Tectonic Geomorphology.- Blackwell Publishing