1.3 Define Earthquakes for Engineering Design
Channel: Dezign Ark
Date: 2020-04-17

See full course here: https://ocw.tudelft.nl/courses/introduction-seismic-essentials-groningen/

In this lecture Ziggy Lubkowski explains some of the basic seismological and engineering terms that are used to define the size of an earthquake, such as intensity, magnitude and peak ground acceleration. In addition, the lecture introduces the importance of soft soils amplifying earthquake ground motions.

Introduction to Seismic Essentials in Groningen by TU Delft OpenCourseWare is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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