SEISMOTECTONICS

Catalog description

Description of the relationship between seismology and plate tectonics. Recognize how earthquakes are used to identify the forces that act along active plate boundaries. Catalog earthquake types occurring at convergent, divergent and shear plate boundaries. Apply the concepts of Physics to explain the seismic processes occurring on the fault plane. Distinguish between slow-slip and stick-slip fault movements. Relate the signal obtained from modern seismic and geodetic instruments with seismic processes to infer plate boundary kinematics.