Teleseismic travel-time delays in the Las Vegas basin

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2047-2060

  Tkalčić, Hrvoje ^a   Rodgers, Arthur J ^b   Rawlinson, Nicholas ^a   McEwan, Darlene J ^c,d   Snelson, Catherine M ^c,e  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^d EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^e NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; EARTHQUAKES; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; FREQUENCY BANDS; PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TIME DELAY;

TRAVEL-TIME;

SURFACE STRUCTURE;

BODY WAVE; GROUND MOTION; P-WAVE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFRACTION; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TRAVEL TIME; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE VELOCITY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

FRENCHMAN MOUNTAIN; LAS VEGAS; NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 50549103259     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120050239     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Borcherdt, R. (1970). Effects of local geology on ground motion near San Francisco Bay, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 60, 29-61.
2. Davis, L., and R. Lynch (1970). Report NVO-1, Seismic response characteristics at Las Vegas, Nevada, from underground nuclear detonations, internal report of the Environmental Research Corporation, 163-203.
3. Dolenc, D., D. S. Dreger, and S. Larsen (2005). Basin structure influences on the teleseismic wave propagation in the Santa Clara Valley, California, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 95, 1120-1136.
4. Kennett, B. L. N., E. R. Engdahl, and R. Buland (1995). Constraints on seismic velocities in the Earth from travel time, Geophys. J. Int. 122, 108-124.
5. Kennett, B. L. N., M. S. Sambridge, and P. R. Williamson (1988). Subspace methods for large scale inverse problems involving multiple parameter classes, Geophys. J. 94, 237-247.
6. Langenheim, V., J. Grow, R. Jachens, G. Dixon, and J. Miller (2001). Geophysical constraints on the location and geometry of the Las Vegas Valley shear zone, Nevada, Tectonics 20, 189-209.
7. Laske, G., and G. Masters (1997). A global digital map of sediment thickness, Eos Trans. AGU 78, F483.
8. Liu, Y., and B. A. Luke (2004). Role of shallow soils in defining seismic response of a deep basin site subjected to high-energy explosive loading, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engineering, D. Doolin, A. Kammerer, T. Nogami, R. B. Seed and I. Towhata (Editors), University of California, Berkeley, 2, 17-24.
9. Liu, Y., B. A. Luke, S. Pullammanappallil, J. N. Louie, and J. Bay (2005). Combining active- and passive-source measurements to profile shear wave velocities for seismic microzonation, in Geo-Frontiers, Austin, Texas, 24-26 January 2005.
10. Louie, J. N., J. G. Anderson, B. A. Luke, C. M. Snelson, W. Taylor, A. Rodgers, D. McCallen, H. Tkalčić, and J. Wagoner (2004). Seismic wave amplification in Las Vegas: site characterization measurements and response models (Abstract S43A-0979), Eos Trans. AGU, 85, no. 47 (Fall Meet. Suppl.), S43A-0979.
11. Luke, B. A., J. N. Louie, H. E. Beeston, V. Skidmore, and A. Concha (2002). Las Vegas seismic response project: measured shallow soils velocities (Abstract S12B-1189), Eos Trans. AGU, 83, no. 47 (Fall Meet. Suppl.), S12B-1189.
12. McEwan, D. J. (2005). A seismological study of the Las Vegas basin, NV: investigating basin depth and shear velocity structure, Master's Thesis, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 117 pp.
13. Patton, H., and S. Taylor (1984). Q structure of the Basin and Range from surface waves, J. Geophys. Res. 89, 6929-6940.
14. Plume, R. W. (1989). Ground-water conditions in Las Vegas Valley, Clark County, Nevada, U.S. Geol. Surv. Water Supply Pap. 2320-A, A1-A15.
15. Rawlinson, N., and M. Urvoy (2006). Simultaneous inversion of active and passive source datasets for 3-D seismic structure with application to Tasmania, Geophys. Res. Lett. 33, L24313, doi 10.1029/ 2006GL028105.
16. Rawlinson, N., M. de Kool, and M. Sambridge (2006). Seismic wavefront tracking in 3-D heterogeneous media: applications with multiple data classes, Explor. Geophys. 37, 322-330.
17. Rodgers, A., H. Tkalčić, D. McCallen, S. Larsen, and C. M. Snelson (2006). Site response in Las Vegas Valley, Nevada from NTS explosions and earthquake data, Pageophysics 163, 55-80.
18. Scott, J. B., M. Clark, T. Rennie, A. Pancha, H. Park, and J. N. Louie (2004). A shallow shear-wave velocity transect across the Reno, Nevada area basin, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 94, no. 6, 2222-2228.
19. Sethian, J. A., and A. M. Popovici (1999). 3-D traveltime computation using the fast marching method, Geophysics 64, 516-523.
20. Slemmons, D. B., J. W. Bell, C. M. dePolo, A. R. Ramelli, G. S. Rasmussen, V. E. Langenheim, R. C. Jachens, K. Smith, and J. O'Donnell (2001). Earthquake hazard in Las Vegas, Nevada, in Proceedings of the 36th Annual Symposium on Engineering Geology and Geotechnical Engineering, B. Luke, E. Jacobson and J. Werle (Editors), Las Vegas, Nevada, 447-460.
21. Snelson, C. M., D. J. McEwan, A. C. Hirsch, and S. A. Zaragoza (2004). Imaging the Las Vegas basin: results from recent seismic refractions experiments (Abstract S34A-07), Eos Trans. AGU 85, no. 47 (Fall Meet. Suppl.), S34A-07.
22. Stidham, C. (1999). Three-dimensional crustal structure influences on wave propagation and generation of strong ground motion in the greater San Francisco Bay region, Ph.D. Thesis, University of California, Berkeley.
23. Su, F., J. G. Anderson, S. Ni, and Y. Zeng (1998). Effect of site amplification and basin response on strong motion in Las Vegas, Nevada, Earthq. Spectra 14, 357-376.
24. Tabor, L. (1982). Geology of the Las Vegas area, U.S. Department of Energy, Nevada Operations Office, Las Vegas, Nevada.
25. Tkalčić, H., A. Rodgers, C. M. Snelson, and D. McEwan (2003). Comprehensive analysis of broadband seismic data in Las Vegas Valley (Abstract S11D-0323), Eos Trans. AGU 84, no. 46 (Fall Meet. Suppl.), S11D-0323.
26. Wernicke, B., G. Axen, and J. K. Snow (1988). Basin and Range extensional tectonics at the latitude of Las Vegas, Nevada, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 100, 1738-1757.
27. Wessel, P., and W. H. Smith (1991). Free software helps map and display data, Eos Trans. AGU 72, 441.