1.1 INTRODUCTION TO EARTH QUAKE
OBJECTIVE OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING – ENGINEERING
SEISMOLOGY
– STRUCTURE OF THE EARTH – TEMPERATURES AND PRESSURES
WITH RESPECT TO DEPTH – PLATE TECTONICS – EVOLUTION OF INDIAN
SUB CONTINENT – SEISMOTECTONICS OF INDIA – SEVERE
EARTHQUAKES IN INDIAN SUB CONTINENT – CAUSES OF EARTHQUAKE
– DEFINITION OF TERMS: FAULT LINE, ACTIVE FAULT,
FOCUS OR HYPO CENTRE, EPICENTRE,EPICENTRE DISTANCE, FOCAL
DEPTH, PEAK GROUND ACCELERATION, FORESHOCKS, AFTERSHOCKS,
ASEISMIC, ISO-SEISMAL, SEISMIC GAP – GROUND SHAKING – SEISMIC
WAVES – BODY WAVES – P-WAVES AND S-WAVES – SURFACE WAVES –
REYLEIGH AND LOVE WAVES – EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY – EARTHQUAKE
SIZE- MAGNITUDE – WAVE MAGNITUDE, DURATION MAGNITUDE,
MOMENT MAGNITUDE – ENERGY RELEASED – CLASSIFICATION OF
EARTHQUAKE BASED ON MAGNITUDE – CONSEQUENCES OF
EARTHQUAKE – GROUND MOTION, GROUND RUPTURE, LIQUEFACTION,
LANDSLIDES, FIRE, TSUNAMIS, ETC- SEISMIC ZONING MAP OF INDIA
(2002) – EARTHQUAKE FREQUENCY – PREDICTION OF EARTHQUAKE
RISK -MEASUREMENT OF EARTHQUAKE – INSTRUMENTS USED –
VARIOUS SCALES – RICHTER‘S MAGNITUDE SCALE .