{"id":353232,"date":"2017-01-16T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=e6de4b8d1762e617b8623d843fed1486"},"modified":"2017-01-16T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T00:00:00","slug":"teaching-hands-on-geophysics-examples-from-the-ru-seismic-network-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=353232","title":{"rendered":"Teaching hands-on geophysics: examples from the R\u016b seismic network in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Education in physics and geosciences can be effectively illustrated by the analysis of earthquakes<br \/>\nand the subsequent propagation of seismic waves in the Earth. Educational seismology has matured to<br \/>\na level where both the hard- and software are robust and user friendly. This has resulted in<br \/>\nsuccessful implementation of educational networks around the world. Seismic data recorded by<br \/>\nstudents are of such quality that these can be used in classic earthquake location exercises, for<br \/>\nexample. But even ocean waves weakly coupled into the Earth\u2019s crust can now be recorded on<br \/>\neducational seismometers. These signals are not just noise, but form the basis of more recent<br \/>\ndevelopments in seismology, such as seismic interferometry, where seismic waves generated by ocean<br \/>\nwaves\u2014instead of earthquakes\u2014can be used to infer information about the Earth\u2019s interior. Here, we<br \/>\nintroduce an earthquake location exercise and an analysis of ambient seismic noise, and present<br \/>\nexamples. Data are provided, an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education in physics and geosciences can be effectively illustrated by the analysis of earthquakes<br \/>\nand the subsequent propagation of seismic waves in the Earth. Educational seismology has matured to<br \/>\na level where both the hard- and software are robus&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-353232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}