A Bayesian hierarchical method for multiple-event seismic location

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1049-1063

  Myers, Stephen C ^a   Johannesson, Gardar ^a   Hanley, William ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Location; Multiple event; NevadaTest Site; Seismic; Stochastic

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; SEISMICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 36349033007     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03555.x     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Billings, S.D., 1994. Simulated annealing for earthquake location, Geophys. J. Int., 118, 680-892.
2. Bondar, I., Myers, S., Engdahl, E.R. & Bergman, E., 2004. Epicenter accuracy based on seismic network criteria, Geophys. J. Int., 156 (3), 483-496.
3. Buland, R., 1986, Uniform reduction error analysis, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 66, 173-187.
4. Dewey, J.W., 1972. Seismicity and tectonics of western Venezuela, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 62, 1711-1751.
5. Douglas, A., 1967. Joint epicentre determination. Nature 215, 47-48.
6. Douglas, A., 2005. Coment on 'Improving sparse network network location with Bayesian Kriging and teleseismically constrained calibration events', Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 95, 367-369,
7. Engdahl, E.R. & Bergman, E.A., 2001. Validation and generation of reference events by cluster analysis, in Proceedings, 23rd Annual DoD/ DOE Seismic Research Review, Jackson Hole, WY.
8. Fisk, M.D., 2002. Accurate locations of nuclear explosions at the Lop Nor test site using alignment of seismograms and IKONOS satellite imagery, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 92 (8), 2911-2925.
9. Gelman, A., Carlin, J.B., Stern, H.S. & Rubin, D.B., 2004. Bayesian Data Analysis, 2nd edn, Hapman and Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL.
10. Haario, H., Saksman, E. & Tamminen, J., 2001. An adaptive Metropolis algorithm. Bernoulli, 7, 223-242.
11. Jefferies, H. 1932. An alternative to the rejection of observations, Proc. Roy. Soc. London. Series A., 137 (831), 78-87.
12. Jordan, T.H. & Sverdrup, K.A., 1981. Teleseismic location techniques and their application to earthquake clusters in the south-central Pacific, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 71, 1105-1130.
13. Kennett, B.L.N. & Engdahl, E.R., 1991. Traveltimes for global earthquake reference location and phase identification, Geophys. J. Int., 105, 429-465.
14. Kennett, B.L.N. & Sambridge, M.S., 1992. Earthquake location - genetic algorithms for teleseisms, Phys. Earth Plant. Int., 75, 103-110.
15. Lay, T. & Wallace, T.W., 1995. Modern Global Seismology, Academic Press, San Diego, CA, 521 p.
16. Lilwall, R.C. & Douglas, A., 1970. Estimation of P-wave travel times using the joint epicenter method, Geophys. J. R. Astro. Soc., 19, 165-181.
17. Lilwall, R.C. & Marshall, P.D., 1986. Body wave magnitudes and locations of Soviet underground explosions at the Novaya Zemlya test site, AWRE Report No. 0 17/86, HMSO, London.
18. Lomax, A., Virieux, J., Volant, P. & Berge, C., 2000. Probabilistic earthquake location in 3D and layered models: Introduction of a Metropolis-Gibbs method and comparison with linear locations, in Advances in Seismic Event Location Thurber, pp. 101-134, eds C.H. & N. Rabinowitz, Kluwer, Amsterdam.
19. Myers, S.C., 2005. Reply to comment on 'improving sparse network seismic location with bayesian kriging and teleseismically constrained calibration', Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 95, 370-372
20. Myers, S.C. & Schultz, C.A., 2000. Improving sparse network seismic location with bayesian kriging and teleseismically constrained calibration events, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 90, 199-211.
21. Myers, S.C., Johannesson, G. & Hanley, W., 2007. Probabilistic seismic phase names, in preparation.
22. Neil, R.M., 2003. Slice sampling (with discussion). Ann. Stat., 31, 705-767.
23. Pavlis, G.L. & Booker, J.R., 1983. Progressive multiple event location (PMEL), Bull. Seim. Soc. Am., 73, 1753-1777.
24. Robert, C.P. & Casella, G., 2004. Monte Carlo Statistical Methods. Springer, New York.
25. Rodi, W., 2006. Grid search event location with non-Gaussian error models, Phys. Earth Planet. Int., 158, 55-66.
26. Ryall, F., 2005. Analysis summary of an assembled Western U.S. dataset. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Technical Report, UCRL-TR-210751, 20pp.
27. Sambridge, M.S. & Kennett, B.L.N., 2001. Seismic event location: Nonlinear inversion using a neighbourhood algorithm, Pure Appl. Geophys., 158 (1-2), 241-257.
28. Sambridge, M. & Mosegaard, K., 2002. Monte Carlo methods in geophysical inverse problems, Rev. Geophys., 40 (3), Art. No. 1009.
29. Schultz, C.A., Myers, S.C., Hipp, J. & Young, C., 1998. Nonstationary Bayesian kriging: A predictive technique to generate corrections for detection, location, and discrimination, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 88, 1275-1288.
30. Tarantola, A., 2004. Inverse Problem Theory, SIAM, Philadelphia, PA, 342 p.
31. Tarantola, A. & Valette, B., 1982. Inverse problems = quest for information, J. Geophys., 50, 159-170.
32. Thurber, C, Trabant, C., Haslinger, F. & Hartog, R., 2001. Nuclear explosion locations at the Balapan, Kazakhstan, nuclear test site: The effects of high-precision arrival times and three-dimensional structure, Phys. Earth Plant. Int., 123 (2-4), 283-301.
33. Waldhauser, F. & Ellsworth, W.L., 2000. A double-difference earthquake location algorithm: Method and application to the Northern Hayward Fault, CA, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 90, 1353-1368.
34. Waldhauser, F. & Richards, P.G., 2004. Reference events for regional seismic phases at IMS stations in China, Bull. Seism. Soc., 94, 2265-2279.
35. Walter, W.R. et al., 2004. An assembled western United States dataset for regional seismic analysis. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Technical Report, UCRL-TR-206630, 17pp.
36. Wolf, C.J., 2002. On the mathematics of using difference operators to relocate earthquakes, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 92, 2879-2892.