My lecture menu for high school students and teachers with exercises Part.1 2023-07-09, revised on 08-06 Yoshio Okamoto
0. My earth-science lectures at KVIS (2017 to 2019 for two-months)
http://seagull.stars.ne.jp/Recent_Articles_2018/2018_GeoSciEd8-KVIS_ERS.pdf
Special Lectures and exercises for students and teachers; (large photos: click to images)
1. Seismology (earthquakes) related
1) Find an epicenter
Preparing tools; compass for drawing
Seismograms and Tutorials(recommended):
JMA59type Seismograms and tutorials: http://www.yossi-okamoto.net/2023_SciUS/Exercise/Seis_Exercise_Loei.pdf
Other seismograms
Seismograms at Thailand recorede by our system:
http://yossi-okamoto.net/KVIS/KVIS-ISF5/index.html
2) Estimate the magnitude (Richter Scale) of an earthquake (in the above resources)
http://seagull.stars.ne.jp/Recent_Articles_2018/2013_AGU_Poster_59Type_Seismograms.pdf
3) Earthquakes and active faults
Flour fault experiment
Preparing tools: fault exp.sets (as follows) for each group or a student
flour 1kg and cocoa powder 200g (for 1 class), paper cup and spoon (for each group x2)
http://seagull.stars.ne.jp/resources/Flour_Fault_Exp/index.html
http://seagull.stars.ne.jp/Articles/Japanese/Flour_Fault.pdf (in Japanese)
Earthquake statistics(G-R law) using spring-block model
http://seagull.stars.ne.jp/2018_JpGU/Hakkenzan_model_Eng_final.pdf
4) Seismographs and Seismograms
http://seagull.stars.ne.jp/Brazil_2018/Poster_GeoSciEd8.pdf
http://seagull.stars.ne.jp/Recent_Articles_2018/2013_AGU_Poster_59Type_Seismograms.pdf
http://yossi-okamoto.net/Old_HP/Univ/Recent_Article2016/2016_IGC35_Seismometer_final2.pdf
http://yossi-okamoto.net/Old_HP/Univ/Recent_Article2016/2014_GeoSciEd7_Horizontal_Seismograph.pdf
Exercise of finding an epi-center using KVIS seismograms: http://yossi-okamoto.net/KVIS/KVIS-ISF5/index.html
Demonstration of seismographs
5) Three dimentional seismicity maps
http://seagull.stars.ne.jp/Recent_Articles_2018/2011_AGU_ChromaDepth_Seismicity_Map.pdf
http://www.yossi-okamoto.net/3D_Seis_Map/IGC33_2008_v8.pdf
other maps
6) Earthquakes as a complex system
go-game model
sand-pile model
1-dimensional cell automaton
7) Depth of Moho-discontinuity from a travel-time curve
2.Geology and other related Part2
Copyright(c) by Y.Okamoto 2023, All rights reserved.