Synthetic seismograms by normal-mode summation: A new derivation and numerical examples

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 183, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1613-1632

  Yang, Hsin Ying ^a   Zhao, Li ^b   Hung, Shu Huei ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Computational seismology; Surface waves and free oscillations; Theoretical seismology; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

CO-ORDINATE TRANSFORMATION; COMPRESSIONAL WAVES; COMPUTATIONAL SEISMOLOGY; CONVENTIONAL COMPONENTS; DISLOCATION SOURCES; EARTH MODELS; EXPLICIT EXPRESSIONS; FORMAL EXPRESSIONS; NORMAL MODES; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; P-WAVE VELOCITY STRUCTURE; RADIAL ANISOTROPY; SELF-GRAVITATION; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; SURFACE-WAVE TOMOGRAPHY; SYNTHETIC SEISMOGRAM; THEORETICAL SEISMOLOGY; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE FORMS; WAVE STRUCTURES;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SURFACE STRUCTURE; SURFACE WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

SHEAR FLOW;

DISLOCATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; P-WAVE; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMOGRAM; SEISMOLOGY; WAVE ATTENUATION; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 78449256327     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04820.x     Document Type: Article

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