2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses School of Environment and Society Department of Architecture and Building Engineering Graduate major in Urban Design and Built Environment
Earthquake Early Warning
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Urban Design and Built Environment
- Instructor(s)
- Seiji Tsuno
- Class Format
- Lecture
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Class
- -
- Course Code
- UDE.S535
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 4Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 19, 2025
- Language
- English
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
To mitigate earthquake damage, it is important to properly evaluate and predict earthquake ground motion. In addition to earthquake ground motion prediction, the response of a single-degree-of-freedom system and early earthquake warning, which are applications of earthquake ground motion are explained. It aims to acquire knowledge about earthquake ground motion prediction, earthquake response of buildings, and earthquake early warning as applications of earthquake ground motion in engineering use.
Course description and aims
As applications of earthquake ground motion in engineering use, students will understand earthquake ground motion prediction, earthquake response of buildings, and earthquake early warning.
Keywords
Earthquake ground motion prediction, subsurface structure, earthquake response of building, earthquake early warning
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Lecture
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Lecture guidance, an overview of applications of earthquake ground motion | Understanding the outline of applications of earthquake ground motion |
| Class 2 | Earthquake and earthquake ground motion | Understanding earthquake and earthquake ground motion |
| Class 3 | Subsurface structure | Understanding subsurface structure by the geophysical survey |
| Class 4 | Empirical earthquake ground motion prediction | Understanding empirical earthquake ground motion prediction |
| Class 5 | Theoretical earthquake ground motion prediction | Understanding theoretical earthquake ground motion prediction |
| Class 6 | Free vibration of undamped and damped SDOF system | Understanding the linear response of the SDOF system |
| Class 7 | Vibration due to harmonic and transient external forces | Understanding the non-linear response of the SDOF system |
| Class 8 | Earthquake early warning | Understanding earthquake early warning |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
Distributing materials during lectures
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Dynamics of structures Anil Chopra, Pearson education limited
Evaluation methods and criteria
Report and presentation
Related courses
- Earthquake Ground Motion
Prerequisites
It is recommended that students take a course on the Earthquake Ground Motion.