C&EE 245

Earthquake Ground Motion Characterization

Civil and Environmental Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

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Earthquake fundamentals, including plate tectonics, fault types, seismic waves, and magnitude scales. Characterization of earthquake source, including magnitude range and rate of future earthquakes. Ground motion prediction equations and site effects on ground motion. Seismic hazard analysis. Ground motion selection and modification for response history analysis.

Letter grading.

When it runs

Winter 2026
Winter 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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Requisites

Official UCLA wording
Corequisite: course C137 or 246.

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Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

C&EE 245

C&EE 246Structural Response to Ground Motions
- C&EE 141Steel Structures
  - C&EE 135AElementary Structural Analysis2 more beneath
- C&EE 142Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures
  - C&EE 135AElementary Structural Analysisanother path to it

Unlocks

What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

C&EE 245

C&EE 225Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering

1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.