Introduction to Seismology and Seismics, 2023-2024

Hanneke Paulssen

Studiewijzer/Course information (pdf)

Exercises part 1 (lectures 1-6; pdf)

Exercises part 2: Jupyter notebooks

Wulff net (pdf)

Table of signed-off exercises

Lecture 1, slides (pdf)

Lecture 2, slides (pdf)

Lecture 3, slides (pdf)

Lecture 4, slides (pdf)
Movie of diffraction
Movie of wave propagation with high velocity anomaly
Movie of wave propagation with low velocity anomaly
Movie of head wave

Lecture 5, slides (pdf)

Lecture 6, slides (pdf)
Movie of direct, reflected and head wave

Lecture 7, slides (pdf)

Lecture 8, slides (pdf)

Lecture 9, slides (pdf)
Animation of P,PP, PKP, PKIKP & Pdiff
Seismic waves: visualization of seismic waves through the earth

Lecture 10, slides (pdf)

Lecture 11, slides (pdf)
Animation: Focal mechanism explained

Lecture 12 and 13, slides (pdf)

Lecture 14, slides (pdf)
Animation: Movements of various normal modes

Lecture 15, slides (pdf)

Guidelines for your seismology paper

Seismological articles 2022-2023 for reference

Preferred deadline paper (as suggested by students previous years): January 14, 2024.
Hard deadline paper: February 2, 2024, 17:00.

Example exams (pdf) (Other exams can be found on the UAV website)

For live seismogram of figure below click here