Dr. Dragana Chernih, Professor
Course content:
The seismic process as a special tectonic process. Subject matter, divisions, active and passive methods of seismic source physics and its relationships to continuum mechanics, fracture mechanics, tectonics, seismic wave theory, and various geophysical methods. Basic physical models of the seismic process and the seismic source. Dynamic and kinematic descriptions of the basic physical models of a seismic source (dynamic fracture/fault propagation, rapid phase transition, rapid thermal expansion) and direct and inverse tasks for such descriptions. Application of the Green's tensor in the solution of kinematic direct problems for the basic physical models of the seismic source. Dynamic and kinematic seismological models of the seismic source. A seismic moment. The most probable physical model of the seismic source (dynamic fault propagation) and of the corresponding seismic process (filtration dilatancy model, dry dilatancy model). Fault mechanism. Paleoseismology.