Duration
21 hours – indoor classes
21 hours - field trips
108 hours - study time and assessment tasks
ECTS
6 ECTS
Learning Outcomes
1. Understand the economic and social impacts of major destructive geological events and relate them with the Earth dynamics.
2. Identify the geological hazards associated with volcanic regions.
3. Understand the dynamics of seismic and volcanic phenomena in result of geological processes.
4. Understand the diversity, intensity and magnitude of geological hazards.
Programme
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Natural disasters and history
1.2 Notions on hazard and risk
1.3 Notions on multirisk
2. GLOBAL TECTONICS AND MAGMATISM2.1 The origin of the Earth and its internal structure
2.2 Geographical distribution and characterization of plate boundaries
2.3 Geographic distribution and geostructural setting of volcanism
2.4 The geological cycle and the main types of rocks
2.5 Geological setting of the Azores archipelago
3. VOLCANIC HAZARD3.1 Introduction to volcanology
3.2 Volcanic hazards
3.3 Eruptive history
3.4 Monitoring and prediction
4. SEISMIC HAZARD4.1 Introduction to seismology
4.2 Quantification of seismicity
4.3 Paleoseismology and historical seismicity
5. LANDSLIDE HAZARD5.1 Introduction to landslides
5.2 Triggering mechanisms
5.3 Monitoring and forecasting
6. TSUNAMI HAZARD6.1 Introduction to tsunamis
6.2 Triggering mechanisms
6.3 Paleotsunamis
Aulas lecionadas pelos Professores Nicolau Wallenstein, Fátima Viveiros, Rui Coutinho e Teresa Ferreira