Mid-continental earthquakes: Spatiotemporal occurrences, causes, and hazards

M Liu, S Stein - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Large earthquakes in North China, Australia, Northwestern Europe, Central and
Eastern United States, and other mid-continents show complex spatiotemporal patterns that …

SubMachine: Web‐based tools for exploring seismic tomography and other models of Earth's deep interior

K Hosseini, KJ Matthews, K Sigloch… - Geochemistry …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We present SubMachine, a collection of web‐based tools for the interactive visualization,
analysis, and quantitative comparison of global‐scale data sets of the Earth's interior …

Imaging the North American continent using waveform inversion of global and USArray data

AJ Schaeffer, S Lebedev - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2014 - Elsevier
The deployment of USArray during the last decade has produced dense sampling of the
central part of the North American continent with broadband seismic data. Regional …

On the consistency of seismically imaged lower mantle slabs

GE Shephard, KJ Matthews, K Hosseini, M Domeier - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
The geoscience community is increasingly utilizing seismic tomography to interpret mantle
heterogeneity and its links to past tectonic and geodynamic processes. To assess the …

Seismic imaging east of the Rocky Mountains with USArray

RW Porritt, RM Allen, FF Pollitz - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2014 - Elsevier
USArray has facilitated significant advancement in tomographic models and methodologies.
While there persists a fundamental tradeoff between horizontal and vertical resolution due to …

Model update May 2016: Upper‐mantle heterogeneity beneath North America from travel‐time tomography with global and USArray data

S Burdick, FL Vernon, V Martynov… - Seismological …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
ABSTRACT P‐wave travel‐time residuals from USArray helped improve the scale and
consistency with which the mantle beneath North America is resolved. Beginning in 2008 …

Seismic structure in the southeastern China using teleseismic receiver functions

Q Li, R Gao, FT Wu, Y Guan, Z Ye, Q Liu, H Kuo-Chen… - Tectonophysics, 2013 - Elsevier
The southeastern margin of China is an ideal area to study the modern plate interactions.
The previous models, however, are poorly constrained with respect to the geometry due to …

The role of the seismically slow Central‐East Atlantic anomaly in the genesis of the Canary and Madeira volcanic provinces

C Civiero, S Custódio, M Neres… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Canary and Madeira provinces in the Central‐East Atlantic Ocean are
characterized by an irregular spatio‐temporal distribution of volcanism along the hotspot …

The lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary and the tectonic and magmatic history of the northwestern United States

E Hopper, HA Ford, KM Fischer, V Lekic… - Earth and Planetary …, 2014 - Elsevier
This study explores the properties of the lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary (LAB) and
other shallow mantle discontinuities across the diverse geologic provinces of the northwest …

Global heterogeneity of the lithosphere and underlying mantle: A seismological appraisal based on multimode surface-wave dispersion analysis, shear-velocity …

AJ Schaeffer, S Lebedev - The earth's heterogeneous mantle: A …, 2015 - Springer
Heterogeneity of the composition and physical state of the rocks within the Earth is reflected
in variations in seismic wave speeds at depth. This seismic heterogeneity can be observed …