GH01 lecture programme

October
DATE	TIME	TITLE	LECTURER	MODULE
Oct 1	14.00 – 19.00	INDUCTION How the Earth Works (NHFI & optional others)	Professor Bill McGuire	GH01
Oct 5	18.00 – 20.00	Seismic Hazard I: causes of earthquakes	Dr. Simon Day	GH01
Oct 8	14.00 – 19.00	Seismic Hazard II: measuring earthquakes Seismic Hazard III: palaeo-seismology Seismic Hazard IV: earthquake hazards	Dr. Simon Day	GH01
Oct 12	18.00 – 20.00	Tsunami risk and hazard: I Tsunami risk and hazard: II	Dr. Simon Day	GH01
Oct 15	14.00 – 19.00	Seismic Risk I: building performance during earthquakes Seismic Risk II: seismic zoning	Professor Adrian Chandler	GH01
Oct 19	18.00 – 20.00	Seismic Risk III:anti-seismic design	Professor Adrian Chandler	GH01
Oct 22	14.00 – 16.00 16.45 – 18.30	Climate change and natural hazards Importance of geological data in seismic risk assessment	Professor Bill McGuire Dr. Gerald Roberts	GH01
Oct 26	18.00 – 20.00	Volcanic hazards: hazard types and mechanisms	Professor Bill McGuire	GH01
Oct 29	14.00 – 16.30 16.30 – 19.00	Volcanic risk reduction Landslides: mechanisms and hazards	Dr. Simon Day	GH01

Assignment downloads for October:

Adrian Chandler - Seismic risk assignment

Simon Day - Volcanic assignment

Simon Day: Volcanic Hazard Assessment
Questions to: Simon Day, simonday_ucl@yahoo.co.uk
Hand in: Email Lucy Stanbrough (deadline: 5pm on 4th December 2009)

UPDATED INSTRUCTIONS: GH01 Volcanic hazard and risk mitigation assessment - deadline extended and some clarifications.

Owing to reported problems with the Smithsonian website during the weekend of 21st/22nd December and several individual issues, the deadline for this assessment is now extended by exactly one week to 5 pm on Friday 4th December.

One point that seems to be causing some confusion is the definition of "active volcano". Please note that this is not restricted to volcanoes with current or historic eruptive activity, but means one with significant potential to erupt in the foreseeable future (and therefore, in the context of this assignment, one that presents a significant volcanic hazard to any population within range of the likely types of eruption). The rule of thumb embodied in the Smithsonian website is that this translates to any volcano that has erupted during the Holocene (conveniently for mathematical calculations, the last 10,000 years), but especially if your country/province/region of study contains large caldera volcanoes you may want to look even further back because of their potential for rare but catastrophic eruptions as well as more frequent intracaldera eruptions. Don't forget to consider the potential for rare catastrophic events at other volcanoes as well - for example, lateral collapse landslides at active stratovolcanoes.

So, you need to consider every volcano in your selected country/province/region that appears in the Smithsonian catalogue as your starting point for questions 1 and 2 and the data tables.

Another question asked concerned the level of knowledge that you can presume in your readers. Assume a basic level of knowledge of general volcanological terminology (e.g. don't waste space explaining the difference between a pyroclastic flow and a lahar unless there is a specific reason, for example if the level of hazard affecting a major city depends on which side is right in an argument in the published literature about whether the deposits in the valleys upstream are lahars or PFs). However, don't assume any organized knowledge of the particular volcanoes in the country/province/region you are writing about.

Please contact Simon Day with any further queries.

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