[LIBRO][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 …

3D attenuation tomography of the volcanic island of Tenerife (Canary Islands)

J Prudencio, JM Ibáñez, E Del Pezzo, J Martí… - Surveys in …, 2015 - Springer
This paper shows a new multidisciplinary interpretation approach to the internal structure of
Tenerife Island. The central core of this work is the determination of the three-dimensional …

[PDF][PDF] 1.25—deep earth structure: Q of the Earth from crust to core

B Romanowicz, B Mitchell - Treatise on geophysics, 2015 - scholar.archive.org
Seismic waves have long been known to attenuate at a rate greater than that predicted by
geometric spreading of their wave fronts. Knopoff (1964) pointed out more than four decades …

Separation of intrinsic and scattering seismic attenuation in the Southern Apennine zone, Italy

F Bianco, E Del Pezzo, M Castellano… - Geophysical Journal …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
Scattered waves observed at the seismographs of the National Italy's seismic network have
been used to investigate the intrinsic dissipation and scattering properties of the lithosphere …

Subduction initiation at the Solomon back‐arc basin: Contributions from both island arc rheological strength and oceanic plateau collision

L Wang, L Dai, W Gong, S Li, X Jiang… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
It is generally accepted that the subduction polarity reversal (SPR) results from the strong
collision of two plates. Yet, the SPR of the Solomon Back‐arc Basin is started in the “soft …

Spatial distribution of intrinsic and scattering seismic attenuation in active volcanic islands–I: model and the case of Tenerife Island

J Prudencio, E Del Pezzo… - Geophysical Journal …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
The complex volcanic system of Tenerife Island is known to have a highly heterogeneous
character, as recently confirmed by velocity tomography. We present new information …

Separation of depth-dependent intrinsic and scattering seismic attenuation in the northeastern sector of the Italian Peninsula

F Bianco, ED Pezzo, L Malagnini… - Geophysical Journal …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
We investigated the intrinsic dissipation and scattering properties of the lithosphere under
the Friuli region (northeastern Italy) using two hypotheses:(i) a uniform earth model and (ii) …

Intrinsic and scattering seismic wave attenuation in the Canary Islands

JA Canas, A Ugalde, LG Pujades… - Journal of …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
The Canary Islands volcanic complex is studied in terms of coda wave attenuation. A
multiple lapse time window method, based on the hypothesis of multiple isotropic scattering …

Scattering attenuation and intrinsic absorption using uniform and depth dependent model–Application to full seismogram envelope recorded in Northern Chile

M Hoshiba, A Rietbrock, F Scherbaum, H Nakahara… - Journal of …, 2001 - Springer
Two seismic wave attenuation factors, scatteringattenuation Q s-1 and intrinsicabsorption Q i-
1 are measured using theMultiple Lapse Time Window (MLTW) analysis method forthree …

Frequency-dependent attenuation of body and coda waves in the Andaman Sea Basin

S Padhy, N Subhadra, JR Kayal - Bulletin of the …, 2011 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We estimated frequency-dependent attenuation of coda waves () and body waves (and) in
1.5–24 Hz by applying the single isotropic scattering theory and the extended coda …