Variations in seismic velocity and attenuation associated with seismogenesis: A numerical verification using ambient noise

Tectonophysics

Volumn 584, Issue , 2013, Pages 54-63

  Rohrbach, Eric ^a,b   Liu, Lanbo ^a   Wang, Linying ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNITED TECHNOLOGIES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Ambient noise; Auto correlation function; Cross correlation function; Horizontal to vertical spectral ratio; Phase velocity dispersion; Seismogenesis

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTIONS; CROSS-CORRELATION FUNCTION; HORIZONTAL-TO-VERTICAL SPECTRAL RATIOS; SEISMOGENESIS; VELOCITY DISPERSION;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; DROPS; EARTHQUAKES; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; VELOCITY;

SEISMIC WAVES;

AMBIENT NOISE; AUTOCORRELATION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; GEOPHYSICAL ARRAY; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMIC ZONE; SEISMICITY; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VERTICAL PROFILE; WAVE DISPERSION;

EID: 84872377637     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.09.004     Document Type: Article

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