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Quantitative Seismology » (New Edition)

Authors: Keiiti Aki, Paul Richards
ISBN-13: 9781891389634, ISBN-10: 1891389637
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University Science Books
Date Published: March 2009
Edition: New Edition

	Preface to the Second Edition
	Preface to the First Edition
1	Introduction	1
2	Basic Theorems in Dynamic Elasticity	11
3	Representation of Seismic Sources	37
4	Elastic Waves from a Point Dislocation Source	63
5	Plane Waves in Homogeneous Media and their Reflection and Transmission at a Plane Boundary	119
6	Reflection and Refraction of Spherical Waves; Lamb's Problem	189
7	Surface Waves in a Vertically Heterogeneous Medium	249
8	Free Oscillations of the Earth	331
9	Body Waves in Media with Depth-Dependent Properties	385
10	The Seismic Source: Kinematics	491
11	The Seismic Source: Dynamics	537
12	Principles of Seismometry	595
App. 1	Glossary of Waves	647
App. 2	Definition of Magnitudes	655
	Bibliography	657
	Index	687