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Errata

Errors found so far in the 2004 reprinting of "An Introduction to Seismology, Earthquakes, and Earth Structure" 

  1. Page 16, Table 1.2-4, last line: change “m/s” to “m sup 2 / s sup 2” (Thanks to Emile Okal for finding this.)
  2. Page 74, Figure 2.5-18, middle: change “x” to “x sub 0” 
  3. Page 78, right side, line 5: change “(Eqn 2.5.8)” to “(Eqn 2.5.18)” (Thanks to Sum Mak for catching this.)
  4. Page 82, Figure 2.6-11(bottom two panels): Change the existing long-dashed curves at the top of the figures to match the pattern of the alternating short-dash/long-dash line that is shown in the legend for the Transmitted S wave energy flux ratio. 
  5. Page 83, Figure 2.6-12(lower left panel): Change the existing dashed curve to match the pattern of the alternating short-dash/long-dash line for the Transmitted S wave energy flux ratio. (Thanks to Fabio Romanelli for finding this.) 
  6. Page 88, last line on left side: change “(2-2/sqrt3)” to “sqrt(2-2/sqrt3)” (Thanks to Thomas Blum and Emile Okal for catching this.)
  7. Page 91, first line: change “cos sup 2” to “2 cos sup 2” (Thanks to Douglas Toomey for catching this.)
  8. Page 91: In the third line after Equation (21), change "critically reflected" to "post-critically reflected" (Thanks to Yue Tian for finding this.). 
  9. Page 91: In the line above Equation (24), change "Eqn 23" to "Eqn 22" (Thanks to Yue Tian for finding this.). 
  10. Page 98: In the right side of Equation (27), change "v sub i" to "v sub j" (Thanks to Yue Tian for finding this.). 
  11. Page 98: In the line below Equation (28), change "L sub ji" to "L sub ij". 
  12. Page 105: Figure 2.9-5 has been corrected. The new version can be found HERE. (Thanks to Suzan van der Lee for finding this.) 
  13. Page 117: In Problem #27b, change "depth of the slab" to "depth beneath the station to the top of the slab" (Thanks to Paul Richards for finding this.). 
  14. Page 121, 8 lines above Eqn 4: change “an angle at or beyond the critical angle” to “an angle at the critical angle“. 
  15. Page 125: Two lines below Equation (17), change "h sub u s the perpendicular distance to the interface below the receiver." to "h sub u = h sub d + x sin theta is the perpendicular distance to the interface below the receiver (Fig. 3.2-10)." (Thanks to Yue Tian for noticing this.). 
  16. Page 162: In the second paragraph, change "Table 5.1-1" to "Table 3.5-1" (Thanks to Fabio Romanelli for finding this.). 
  17. Page 166: In the second-to-last line of the second paragraph, change "3 pi / 4" to "3 pi / 2" (Thanks to Yue Tian for finding this.). 
  18. Page 169, Caption to Figure 3.5-9: change "1977" to "1997". 
  19. Page 177: In the top-right paragraph, line 10, change "crystal lattice" to "crystal lattices of an agglomeration of mineral grains" (Thanks to Paul Richards for finding this.). 
  20. Page 178, Figure 3.6-2(bottom): Change S1 to S2 in both places. (Thanks to Thorne Lay for finding this.) 
  21. Page 178, Caption to Figure 3.6-2: In the last line, change S1 to S2. (Thanks to Thorne Lay for finding this.) 
  22. Page 179, Third line from the top: Change S1 to S2. (Thanks to Thorne Lay for finding this.) 
  23. Page 185: Figure 3.6-13 has been corrected. The new version can be found HERE. (Thanks to Michael Ritzwoller for finding this.) 
  24. Page 190: In Equation (3), change "B e sup i omega sub o t" to "B e sup -i omega sub o t" (Thanks to Yue Tian for finding this.) 
  25. Page 199: In the caption to Fig. 3.7-19, change "increases with depth" to "decreases with depth" (Thanks to Yue Tian for finding this.) 
  26. Page 201, Eqn 17: change “g alpha tau” to “rho alpha tau” (Thanks to Po-Fei Chen for finding this.)
  27. Page 212, HW#4a: Change “distance y” to “distance y (along the surface)”
  28. Page 218: In the second paragraph in the right column (2nd to last line), change "Section 2.3.4" to "Section 2.3.5" (Thanks to Yue Tian for finding this.) 
  29. Page 222: In the third line, change "M(t)" to "M dot (t)" [this is an "M" with a dot on top] (Thanks to Yue Tian for finding this.) 
  30. Page 274: Two lines after Equation (1), change "greater than M" to "greater than or equal to M." (Thanks to Cliff Thurber for finding this.) 
  31. Page 278, line below Eqn 9: change “e sup x” to “e sup -x” (Thanks to Jerome Stein for finding this.)
  32. Page 325: In Figure 5.4-30, change the spelling of "Aleutions" to "Aleutians." 
  33. Page 348, Caption to Figure 5.6-19: Change the citation to (World Stress Map project, Muller et al., 2000). 
  34. Page 392: In the right hand side of Equation (1), change "]." "]dx." 
  35. Page 392: In the right hand side of Equation (2), change "]." "]dz." 
  36. Page 393: In Equations 6 and 7: change “p sub i (mu prime)” to “p sub i (x sub i )”, change “p(mu prime)” to “p(x sub i )”, change “P sub i (mu prime)” to “P sub i (x sub i )”, change “d/d mu prime” to “d/dx sub i”
  37. Page 413, Box 6C-2: In line 8, change "DATA(I+1)" to "DATAI(I+1)". 
  38. Page 426, Eqn 11: change “LAMBDA” to “LAMBDA sup 2” (Thanks to Malcolm Sambridge for finding this.)
  39. Page 426, line after Eqn 12: change “LAMBDA” to “LAMBDA sup 2” (Thanks to Malcolm Sambridge for finding this.) 
  40. Page 426, Eqn 13: Each of the lambdas should be squared (Thanks to Malcolm Sambridge for finding this.)
  41. Page 426: add text after Eqn 13: “where the eigenvalues are written as squared because lambda sub i are the eigenvalues of G.” (Thanks to Malcolm Sambridge for finding this.)
  42. Page 427: change “LAMBDA” to “LAMBDA sup 2” and change “LAMBDA sup -1” to “LAMBDA sup -2” (Thanks to Malcolm Sambridge for finding this.)
  43. Page 427, EQN 16: change “LAMBA sup -1” to “LAMBDA sup -2” and square each of the diagonal terms (Thanks to Malcolm Sambridge for finding this.)
  44. Page 427, Eqn 19: change “LAMBDA” to “LAMBDA sup 2” (Thanks to Malcolm Sambridge for finding this.)
  45. Page 427: In the second line above Equation (20), change "decompose the matrix G" to "decompose the matrix GTG" [GTG is G superscript T G, as on left side of equation 11] 
  46. Page 427: In Equation (20), change the left side from "G" to "GTG" [GTG is G superscript T G, as on left side of equation 11] 
  47. Page 445: Figure A.3-1 has been corrected. The new version can be found HERE. (Thanks to Garrett Euler for finding this.) 
  48. Page 445: Figure A.3-2 has been corrected. The new version can be found HERE. (Thanks to Garrett Euler for finding this.) 
  49. Page 481. Add the reference: Muller, B., J. Reinecker, B. Sperner, and K. Fuchs (2000) The 2000 release of the World Stress Map. 

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