Improved location procedures at the International Seismological Centre

I Bondár, D Storchak - Geophysical Journal International, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Summary The International Seismological Centre (ISC) is a non-governmental, non-profit
organization with the primary mission of producing the definitive account of the Earth′ s …

A global model of Love and Rayleigh surface wave dispersion and anisotropy, 25-250 s

G Ekström - Geophysical Journal International, 2011 - academic.oup.com
A large number of fundamental-mode Love and Rayleigh wave dispersion curves were
determined from seismograms for 3330 earthquakes recorded on 258 globally distributed …

A Crust and Upper-Mantle Model of Eurasia and North Africa for Pn Travel-Time Calculation

SC Myers, ML Begnaud, S Ballard… - Bulletin of the …, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We develop a regional seismic travel-time (RSTT) model and method for use in routine
seismic analysis. The model parameterization is a global tessellation of nodes with a …

Development of double-pair double difference earthquake location algorithm for improving earthquake locations

H Guo, H Zhang - Geophysical Journal International, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Event-pair double-difference (DD) earthquake location method, as incorporated in hypoDD,
has been widely used to improve relative earthquake locations by using event-pair …

A new ground truth data set for seismic studies

I Bondár, KL McLaughlin - Seismological Research …, 2009 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Ground truth seismic sources and receivers are the seismologist's equivalent of the
geodesist's “benchmark.” Geodesists measure distances between benchmarks on the …

Global‐scale P wave tomography optimized for prediction of teleseismic and regional travel times for Middle East events: 2. Tomographic inversion

NA Simmons, SC Myers… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We construct a model of three‐dimensional P wave velocity structure in the crust and mantle
that is global in extent, but with detailed upper mantle heterogeneities throughout the greater …

The Spanish national earthquake catalogue: Evolution, precision and completeness

A Gonzalez - Journal of Seismology, 2017 - Springer
This paper details the evolution, precision and completeness of the earthquake catalogue
compiled by the Spanish National Geographic Institute. Over 100,000 earthquakes are …

SALSA3D: A tomographic model of compressional wave slowness in the Earth's mantle for improved travel‐time prediction and travel‐time prediction uncertainty

S Ballard, JR Hipp, ML Begnaud… - Bulletin of the …, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The task of monitoring the Earth for nuclear explosions relies heavily on seismic data to
detect, locate, and characterize suspected nuclear tests. Motivated by the need to locate …

On seismological reference models and the perceived nature of heterogeneity

BLN Kennett - Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 2006 - Elsevier
A key ingredient in understanding Earth structure is the integration of seismological
information with results from mineral physics for both the dominant radial dependence of …

Seismic location bias and uncertainty in the presence of correlated and non-Gaussian travel-time errors

I Bondár, K McLaughlin - Bulletin of the Seismological …, 2009 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Correlated travel-time errors bias both seismic location and location uncertainty estimates.
Methodologies are introduced to model travel-time correlation structures and to account for …