Attendance of this course will provide the delegate with a focused introduction and overview of anthropogenic seismicity both in South Africa and internationally. The delegate will be exposed to the process of recording events through to the calculation and interpretation of the associated seismic hazard.

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Understand the differences between natural and anthropogenic earthquakes, and be able to identify the causes of each.
• Analyse seismic observations and estimate parameters of the seismic source, such as ground motion parameters.
• Evaluate the impact of earthquakes on ground motion and damage, and predict ground motion using ground motion prediction equations.
• Understand the public perception of the seismic natural and anthropogenic seismic hazard, and the socio-economic impact of seismicity induced by the exploitation of geo-resources.
• Explain the relation between anthropogenic seismicity and the inducing technological processes.
• Assess, interpret, and mitigate seismic hazard, including time-independent and time-dependent cases.
• Understand social seismic hazard and its mitigation.
• Participate in collaborative undertakings for research into anthropogenic seismicity.

Throughout the course, the delegate will also be exposed to the novel e-research infrastructure IS-EPOS Platform (tcs.ah-epos.eu). The EPOS and EPISODES platforms connect international, open-source grouped datasets with an extended set of embedded applications for effective data processing, analyses and visualisation.