[KNYGA][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 …

Spatial and temporal correlation between coda Q−1 and seismicity and its physical mechanism

A **, K Aki - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 1989 - Wiley Online Library
From the analysis of local earthquake coda waves recorded by the Benioff short‐period
vertical seismograph at Riverside, California, we found a surprisingly large and systematic …

Effects of local soil conditions on the topographic aggravation of seismic motion: parametric investigation and recorded field evidence from the 1999 Athens …

D Assimaki, G Gazetas… - Bulletin of the …, 2005 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
During the 1999 Athens earthquake, the town of Adàmes, located on the eastern side of the
Kifissos river canyon, experienced unexpectedly heavy damage. Despite the particular …

Multiple scattering and energy transfer of seismic waves—Separation of scattering effect from intrinsic attenuation II. Application of the theory to Hindu Kush region

RS Wu, K Aki - Scattering and Attenuations of Seismic Waves, Part I, 1988 - Springer
In order to separate the scattering effect from intrinsic attenuation, we need a multiple
scattering model for seismic wave propagation in random heterogeneous media. In paper I …

[KNYGA][B] Deconvolution and inverse theory: application to geophysical problems

V Dimri - 2013 - books.google.com
This is the first study to present simultaneously both deconvolution and inversion, two
powerful tools of data analysis. Featured within this volume are various geophysical …

Broadening of seismogram envelopes in the randomly inhomogeneous lithosphere based on the parabolic approximation: Southeastern Honshu, Japan

H Sato - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 1989 - Wiley Online Library
Analyzing horizontal component seismograms of small earthquakes with intermediate
hypocentral distances in southeastern Honshu, Japan, we found that time widths of …

Correlation functions of random media

L Klimeš - Pure and applied geophysics, 2002 - Springer
In geophysics, the correlation functions of random media are of principal importance for
understanding and inverting the properties of seismic waves propagating in geological …

One-way and one-return approximations (De Wolf approximation) for fast elastic wave modeling in complex media

RS Wu, XB **e, XY Wu - Advances in Geophysics, 2007 - Elsevier
The De Wolf approximation has been introduced to overcome the limitation of the Born and
Rytov approximations in long range forward propagation and backscattering calculations …

Heterogeneity spectrum and scale‐anisotropy in the upper crust revealed by the German Continental Deep‐Drilling (KTB) Holes

RS Wu, Z Xu, XP Li - Geophysical Research Letters, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
Crustal heterogeneities and their statistical characteristics bear important information about
the dynamic processes and evolution of the crust. The velocity well‐log data from the …

Broad-band near-field ground motion simulations in 3-dimensional scattering media

W Imperatori, PM Mai - Geophysical journal international, 2013 - academic.oup.com
The heterogeneous nature of Earth's crust is manifested in the scattering of propagating
seismic waves. In recent years, different techniques have been developed to include such …