Anelastic structure and evolution of the continental crust and upper mantle from seismic surface wave attenuation

BJ Mitchell - Reviews of Geophysics, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
Regional variations of the intrinsic shear wave quality factor Qµ in both the upper crust and
upper mantle of continents are large, with values in old, stable cratons exceeding those in …

A review of the discrete wavenumber method

M Bouchon - Pure and applied Geophysics, 2003 - Springer
A Review of the Discrete Wavenumber Method Page 1 A Review of the Discrete Wavenumber
Method MICHEL BOUCHON 1 Abstract — We present a review of the discrete wavenumber …

[BOOK][B] Seismic wave propagation and scattering in the heterogeneous earth

H Sato, MC Fehler, T Maeda - 2012 - Springer
The structure of the earth has been extensively studied using seismic waves generated by
natural earthquakes and man-made sources. In classical seismology, the earth is …

[BOOK][B] An introduction to mining seismology

SJ Gibowicz, A Kijko - 2013 - books.google.com
An Introduction to Mining Seismology describes comprehensively the modern methods and
techniques used to monitor and study seismicity and rockbursts in mines. Key case histories …

Moment, energy, stress drop, and source spectra of western United States earthquakes from regional coda envelopes

K Mayeda, WR Walter - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
We present a new method to estimate stable seismic source parameters, such as energy,
moment, and Orowan stress drop, using regional coda envelopes from as few as one …

Separation of scattering and intrinsic attenuation for the Kanto-Tokai region, Japan, using measurements of S-wave energy versus hypocentral distance

M Fehler, M Hoshiba, H Sato… - Geophysical Journal …, 1992 - academic.oup.com
Determining the relative amount of attenuation caused by scattering and intrinsic absorption
is important to the understanding of wave propagation and attenuation in the heterogeneous …

A comparative study of scattering, intrinsic, and coda Q−1 for Hawaii, Long Valley, and central California between 1.5 and 15.0 Hz

K Mayeda, S Koyanagi, M Hoshiba… - … Research: Solid Earth, 1992 - Wiley Online Library
A new method recently developed by Hoshiba et al.(1991) was used to separate the effects
of scattering Q− 1 and intrinsic Q− 1 from an analysis of the S wave and its coda in Hawaii …

Phase and spectral ratio discrimination between NTS earthquakes and explosions. Part I: Empirical observations

WR Walter, KM Mayeda… - Bulletin of the …, 1995 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Seismic discrimination of small-magnitude (mb< 4) nuclear explosions from earthquakes
requires short-period (f> 0.5 Hz) regional measurements. In this study we evaluate the most …

Separation of scattering attenuation and intrinsic absorption in Japan using the multiple lapse time window analysis of full seismogram envelope

M Hoshiba - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
Two seismic wave attenuation factors, scattering attenuation (Qs− 1) and intrinsic absorption
(Qi− 1), can be determined from estimates of two parameters, the reciprocal of extinction …

Hybrid Broadband Ground-Motion Simulations: Combining Long-Period Deterministic Synthetics with High-Frequency Multiple S-to-S Backscattering

PM Mai, W Imperatori, KB Olsen - Bulletin of the …, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We present a new approach for computing broadband (0–10 Hz) synthetic seismograms by
combining high-frequency (HF) scattering with low-frequency (LF) deterministic …