Department of Earth and Environmental SciencesUM LOGO
               University of Michigan

  HOME     |     RESEARCH     |     PUBLICATIONS     |     ABOUT ME     |     CONTACT     |     SOFTWARE & NOTES     |    TODAY'S EARTHQUAKES    |     فارسی      |      CHANNEL    |    OUTREACH    |    TEACHING   |    CV  |    DataViz NEW


SCRIBBLES:

Acoustics, Tsunamis and Fluid Mechanics
  • Rayleigh wave displacement fields from finite sources (PDF)
  • Tsunami Source Discretization (TSD) (PDF)
  • Notes on fluid mechanics -- The Road to Tsunamis  (PDF)
  • Beginner's Notes on basic hydrodynamics of tsunamis  (PDF)
  • The June 1990 Tsunami of the Caspian Sea (notes on tsunamis & the 1990 slump event)  (PDF)

Grids and Maps
  • Grids -- A set of notes on topographic grids (PDF)
  • Tips and Tricks for GMT (a set of quick tips for people who already know how to use GMT to some extent) (PDF)

Seismic Hazard
  • Seismic Hazard in Iran: Beginner's note  (PDF)
  • Seismic Hazard in Iran: Beginner's note v1.5  (PDF)
  • Note on F-distribution  (PDF)
  • Note on Gamma Function  (PDF)

Seismometry
  • Beginner's Notes on Oscillators -- The Road to Seismometry  (PDF)
  • Maintenance Report on the EPS "Green" Seismometer and the STS-2 in Locy Hall  (PDF)
  • Investigating the Response Functions of EPS Seismometers at Northwestern University (notes on instrument response and the EPS device) (PDF)

Snippets:
  • RECSEC: Bundle to produce record sections and radiation pattern maps for WILBER data (see here)
  • DFETCH: Code bundle to acquire and process DART data (see here)
  • BEAMER: Bundle for beamforming of tsunamis (see here)
  • FRUN: Bundle of codes and scripts to calculate Rayleigh wave displacement fields from finite ruptures using normal modes theory. The outputs can readily be used in tsunami simulations (currently works up to 0S60, acceptable for working periods of tsunamis; see here and here).
  • TSD: Tsunami Source Discretization package (see here).
  • TsuNoise: Bundle of scripts & FORTRAN codes to sonify tsunami simulations using Gibbs entropy (see here).
  • KagDom:Set of programs and scripts to find the dominant source geometry in a region, using available focal solutions (see here).
  • TsuBox v2.0: Set of programs to ray-trace complex, finite tsunami sources (see here).
  • OMEGA: Code/Parameter I am developing using the OBS signals to do tsunami warning.
  • METEO: Finite-difference code to calculate meteotsunami amplitudes (see here).
  • CATANIM: Creates 4D movies of earthquake distribution in a given catalog. You can access a crude outline of what I have already done here. Here is an example.
  • RESPSHELL: A code package tp experimentally analyze the behavior of instrument response curves in different frequency bands (here).
  • SNRGAP: A script package to create record gap datasets -- and movies -- using IRIS MUSTANG and similar services (see here).

Interesting Books, Papers and Dissertaions I am reading now[ish]:

  • Barberopoulou, A., Qamar, A., Pratt, T.L., Creager, K.C. and Steele, W.P., 2004. Local amplification of seismic waves from the Denali Earthquake and damaging seiches in Lake Union, Seattle, Washington. Geophys. Res. Lett., 31(3).
  • Menke, W., 2012. Geophysical Data Analysis: Discrete Inverse Theory. Academic Press.
  • Saito, T. and Tsushima, H., 2016. Synthesizing ocean bottom pressure records including seismic wave and tsunami contributions: Toward realistic tests of monitoring systems. J Geophys Res: Solid Earth, 121(11), pp.8175-8195.

ANY HELP IS APPRECIATED!!


Good Reads:
  • Feynman, Richard P., Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985) (READ)
  • Liner, Christopher L., Greek Seismology, 1997 (READ)
  • Agnew, Duncan Carr, History of Seismology, IHEES, 2002  (READ)
  • Davison, Charles, A Study of Recent Earthquakes, WS Publishing, London, 1905 (READ)
  • Houston, Edwin, J., The Wonder Book of Volcanoes and Earthquakes, Fredrick A. Stokes Company Publishers, New York, 1907 (READ)
  • Theophrasus, Tyrtamus, On Stones, ~300 B.C. (READ)
  • Bak, P., Tang, C., and Wiesenfeld, Self-organized Criticaliry, Physical Review, Volume 38, 1988 (READ)