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This third edition provides a concise yet approachable introduction to seismic theory, designed as a first course for graduate students or advanced undergraduate students. It clearly explains the fundamental concepts, emphasizing intuitive understanding over lengthy derivations, and outlines the different types of seismic waves and how they can be used to resolve Earth structure and understand earthquakes. New material and updates have been added throughout, including ambient noise methods, shear-wave splitting, back-projection, migration and velocity analysis in reflection seismology, earthquake…
Offers a concise yet accessible introduction to seismic theory, with a focus on the mathematical fundamentals of global seismology
Includes both revised and new examples, review questions and computational exercises, giving students the opportunity to apply the techniques they have learned to compute key results and illustrate Earth's seismic properties
Computer code examples in this book are now in MATLAB®/Python rather than in Fortran
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Author
Peter M. Shearer,University of California, San Diego
Peter M. Shearer is Professor of Geophysics at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. He has written over 200 scientific papers on various aspects of seismology, is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and is currently President of the Seismological Society of America. He has taught the introductory seismology class at Scripps for over twenty-five years.