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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48221421 Title: An introduction to seismology, earthquakes, and earth structure Author: Seth Stein; Michael Wysession Publisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2003. ISBN/ISSN: 0865420785 9780865420786 OCLC:48221421

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An introduction to seismology, earthquakes, and earth structure

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An introduction to seismology, earthquakes, and earth structure

Author:	Seth Stein; Michael Wysession
Publisher:	Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2003.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Seth Stein; Michael Wysession Find more information about:
ISBN:	0865420785 9780865420786
OCLC Number:	48221421
Description:	x, 498 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
Contents:	Models in seismology -- Seismology and society -- Seismic hazards and risks -- Engineering seismology and earthquake engineering -- Highways, bridges, dams, and pipelines -- Tsunamis, landslides, and soil liquefaction -- Earthquake forecasting -- Earthquake prediction -- Real-time warnings -- Nuclear monitoring and treaty verification -- Basic Seismological Theory -- Waves on a string -- Theory -- Harmonic wave solution -- Reflection and transmission -- Energy in a harmonic wave -- Normal modes of a string -- Stress and strain -- Stress -- Stress as a tensor -- Principal stresses -- Maximum shear stress and faulting -- Deviatoric stresses -- Equation of motion -- Strain -- Constitutive equations -- Boundary conditions -- Strain energy -- Seismic waves -- The seismic wave equation -- Plane waves -- Spherical waves -- P and S waves -- Energy in a plane wave -- Snell's law -- The layered medium approximation -- Plane wave potentials for a layered medium -- Angle of incidence and apparent velocity -- Snell's law -- Critical angle -- Snell's law for SH waves -- Ray parameter and slowness -- Waveguides -- Fermat's principle and geometric ray theory -- Huygens' principle and diffraction -- Plane wave reflection and transmission coefficients -- SH wave reflection and transmission coefficients -- Energy flux for reflected and transmitted SH waves -- Postcritical SH waves -- P-SV waves at a free surface -- Solid-solid and solid-liquid interfaces -- Surface waves -- Rayleigh waves in a homogeneous halfspace.
Responsibility:	Seth Stein, Michael Wysession.
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