Crustal and uppermost mantle structure beneath the United States

W Shen, MH Ritzwoller - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a new model of the shear velocity structure of the crust and uppermost
mantle beneath the contiguous US The model is based on more than a decade of USArray …

Eastward expansion of the Tibetan Plateau by crustal flow and strain partitioning across faults

QY Liu, RD Van Der Hilst, Y Li, HJ Yao, JH Chen… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The lateral expansion of the southeastern Tibetan Plateau causes devastating earthquakes,
but is poorly understood. In particular, the links between regional variations in surface …

Transdimensional inversion of receiver functions and surface wave dispersion

T Bodin, M Sambridge, H Tkalčić… - … research: solid earth, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We present a novel method for joint inversion of receiver functions and surface wave
dispersion data, using a transdimensional Bayesian formulation. This class of algorithm …

Joint inversion of surface wave dispersion and receiver functions: a Bayesian Monte-Carlo approach

W Shen, MH Ritzwoller… - Geophysical Journal …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
A non-linear Bayesian Monte-Carlo method is presented to estimate a Vsv model beneath
stations by jointly interpreting Rayleigh wave dispersion and receiver functions and …

100 years of seismic research on the Moho

C Prodehl, B Kennett, IM Artemieva, H Thybo - Tectonophysics, 2013 - Elsevier
The detection of a seismic boundary, the “Moho”, between the outermost shell of the Earth,
the Earth's crust, and the Earth's mantle by A. Mohorovičić was the consequence of …

A 3‐D model of the crust and uppermost mantle beneath the Central and Western US by joint inversion of receiver functions and surface wave dispersion

W Shen, MH Ritzwoller… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Rayleigh wave phase velocity maps from ambient noise and earthquake data are inverted
jointly with receiver functions observed at 828 stations from the USArray Transportable Array …

Employing remote sensing, data communication networks, ai, and optimization methodologies in seismology

MS Abdalzaher, HA Elsayed… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Seismology is among the intrinsic sciences that strictly affect human lives. Many research
efforts are presented in the literature aiming at achieving risk mitigation and disaster …

Advances and perspectives for receiver function imaging of the Earth's internal discontinuities and velocity structures

C Ling, W Xu, W **n, W Zigen, Z Jianyong - Reviews of Geophysics and …, 2022 - sjdz.org.cn
Studying the structures, properties and origins of the Earth's internal discontinuities is an
important part in the efforts to understand the physical and chemical properties of the …

Inversion of receiver functions without deconvolution—application to the Indian craton

T Bodin, H Yuan, B Romanowicz - Geophysical Journal …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Receiver functions are a powerful tool to isolate and interpret receiver-side structure effects
in teleseismic seismic records. They are easily constructed by deconvolving one component …

Imaging the upper crust of the Korean Peninsula by surface-wave tomography

KH Cho, RB Herrmann… - Bulletin of the …, 2007 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Cross correlation of seismic-background motions (;) is applied to observations from the
Korean Meteorological Administration seismic network to estimate the short-period Rayleigh …