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

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    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


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