Temporal change in scattering and attenuation associated with the earthquake occurrence—A review of recent studies on coda waves     

Haruo Sato 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》1988,126(2-4):465-497

The study of coda waves has recently attracted increasing attention from seismologists. This is due to the fact that it is viewed as a new means by which the stress accumulation stage preceding a large earthquake can be measured, since the scattering paths nearly uniformly cover a fairly large region around the focus and observation stations, compared with the direct ray paths. To date, we have had many reports on the temporal variation of the relation between coda duration and amplitude magnitude, and that of the coda attenuationQ _c ^–1 which is estimated from coda amplitude decay. Some of these have shown a precursor-like behavior; however, others seem to have shown a coseismic change. We have critically reviewed these reports, and discussed what these observational facts tell us about the change in the heterogeneous crust. We found significant temporal variations, not only in the mean but also in the scatter ofQ _c ^–1 , associated with the mainshock occurrence. The formation of new cracks, the reopening and growing of existing cracks, the interaction of these cracks, and the pore water movement through these cracks might correspond to such variations. In addition, we may expect an inhomogeneous distribution of crack clusters in a fairly large region, compared with the aftershock region. The gradual appearance of such crack clusters seems to be the most plausible mechanism by which coda decay gradients are caused to largely scatter in the stress accumulation stage.  相似文献   

The fractal nature of the inhomogeneities in the lithosphere evidenced from seismic wave scattering     

Ru-Shan Wu  Keiiti Aki 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》1985,123(6):805-818

In this paper we show evidences of the fractal nature of the 3-D inhomogeneities in the lithosphere from the study of seismic wave scattering and discuss the relation between the fractal dimension of the 3-D inhomogeneities and that of the fault surfaces. Two methods are introduced to measure the inhomogeneity spectrum of a random medium: 1. the coda excitation spectrum method, and 2. the method of measuring the frequency dependence of scattering attenuation. The fractal dimension can be obtained from the inhomogeneity spectrum of the medium. The coda excitation method is applied to the Hindu-Kush data. Based on the observed coda excitation spectra (for frequencies 1–25 Hz) and the past observations on the frequency dependence of scattering attenuation, we infer that the lithospheric inhomogeneities are multiple scaled and can be modeled as a bandlimited fractal random medium (BLFRM) with an outer scale of about 1 km. The fractal dimension of the 3-D inhomogeneities isD ₃=31/2–32/3, which corresponds to a scaling exponent (Hurst number)H=1/2–1/3. The corresponding 1-D inhomogeneity spectra obey the power law with a powerp=2H+1=2–5/3. The intersection between the earth surface and the isostrength surface of the 3-D inhomogeneities will have fractal dimensionD ₁=1.5–1.67. If we consider the earthquake fault surface as developed from the isosurface of the 3-D inhomogeneities and smoothed by the rupture dynamics, the fractal dimension of the fault trace on the surface must be smaller thanD ₁, in agreement with recent measurements of fractal dimension along the San Andreas fault.  相似文献   

Simulation of seismic response in an idealized city     

Chrysoula Tsogka  Armand Wirgin   《Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering》2003,23(5):391-402

We study the seismic response of an idealized 2D ‘city’, constituted by ten non equally-spaced, non equally-sized, homogenized blocks (i.e. buildings or groups of buildings) anchored in a soft soil layer overlying a hard halfspace. Our results display strong response inside the blocks and on the ground which qualitatively match the responses observed in some earthquake-prone cities.  相似文献   

CODA Q estimates for Kumaun Himalaya     

A. Paul  S. C. Gupta  Charu C. Pant 《Journal of Earth System Science》2003,112(4):569-576

CodaQ (Q _c) estimates for the Kumaun Himalaya region have been obtained in high frequency range. Local earthquakes, recorded by a digital seismic network in the region, which fall in the epicentral distances range of 10 to 80 km and with a local magnitude range of 1.4 to 2.8, have been used. The coda waves of 30 sec window length, filtered at seven frequency bands centered at 1.5, 3, 6, 9, 12, 18 and 24Hz, have been analysed using the single backscattering model. The values ofQ _c estimates vary from 65 to 283 at 1.5 Hz to 2119 to 3279 at 24.0 Hz which showed thatQ _c is frequency dependent and its value increases as frequency increases. A frequency-dependentQ _c relationship,Q _c = (92 ± 4.73)f^(1.07±.023), is obtained for the region representing the average attenuation characteristics of seismic waves for Kumaun Himalaya region.  相似文献   

Partial melt in the lowermost mantle near the base of a plume     

Zuihong Zou  Felipe Leyton  Keith D. Koper 《Geophysical Journal International》2007,168(2):809-817

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Characterization of regional and local scattering effects from small-aperture seismic array recordings     

Estelle?SchisseléEmail author  Stéphane?Gaffet  Yves?Cansi 《Journal of Seismology》2005,9(2):137-149

In 1998, four small-aperture arrays separated by 20 km have been deployed in the southern French Alps in order to record the natural seismicity during two consecutive months. One of the main objectives of this experiment was to characterize the heterogeneities that influence the wavefield propagation, by analysis of the coda characteristics recorded by each of the seismic arrays.The time-azimuth-velocity characteristics of the coda phases have been obtained using a high-resolution wavenumber decomposition method.A statistical analysis, using the coda characteristics of the whole data set (20 regional earthquakes) recorded by the four arrays has been performed and lead to the calculation of the density of scattered energy within the medium. Three regional heterogeneous areas (> 10 km) have been characterized, and are located in the N–NE, W and S directions from the four arrays. Scattered energy is also located at local distances (< 10 km) from the four arrays.The comparison of the waveforms recorded (i) with one of the array, for different groups of earthquakes, and (ii) with the four arrays, for one group of earthquakes, show that the geometrical configuration of the source–scattering area–recording site system can strongly influence the energetic distributions related to the secondary phases of the seismograms.In particular cases, we experimentally show that the interactions of the direct wavefield with the heterogeneous structures of the medium can be sufficiently energetic to induce secondary scattered phases that dominate the seismic motions recorded at a given site. In such case, these effects should be taken into account for the quantification of the expected ground motion recorded during an earthquake.  相似文献   

新疆及周边地区Lg尾波的Qem值分布   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2       下载免费PDF全文

徐彦  毛燕  胡家富  苏有锦  丛连理 《地震学报》2005,27(2):155-162

首先运用叠加谱比法， 对新疆地区22个数字化台网台站、乌鲁木齐台站以及周边的7个台站1999～2003年上半年所记录的1 156个宽带垂直记录，进行了处理， 得到了与各射线相对应的Q0值（1 Hz处的Q值）和频率相关因子eta;. 在此基础上， 应用反投影技术， 得到了新疆地区1deg;times;1deg;网格的Q0值和eta;值的分布图象. 结果表明: 在塔里木地台及西伯利亚地台边缘，Q0值较高，为300～450； 而在南部的西昆仑褶皱系、松潘甘孜褶皱系，Q0呈现出低值，在150～250的范围内变化；在北部的准葛尔褶皱系和天山褶皱系，Q0现出较低的值，在250～300的范围内变化，eta;值的变化范围为0.5～0.9.    相似文献   

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

F. Bianco  E. Del Pezzo  L. Malagnini  F. Di Luccio  A. Akinci 《Geophysical Journal International》2005,161(1):130-142

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利用SSR法研究钟祥台Lg波尾波衰减特征     

赵瑞  朱新运  李俊超 《大地测量与地球动力学》2021,41(8):877-880

利用单台叠加谱比法（SSR）分析钟祥台记录的周边地区30个地震事件的垂直分量,得出与各个射线对应的Lg波尾波的Q0值。结果表明,Q0值的大小与构造活动强弱有关,在构造活动强烈的胡集-沙洋断裂、通城河断裂、天阳坪断裂、青峰断裂附近呈现出低值,约在130～200范围内变化;在远离断裂的区域,构造活动比较稳定,Q0值达到600以上。  相似文献   

2009年云南姚安M_S6.0地震余震序列尾波Q_c值研究     

李琼  秦嘉政  钱晓东  赵小艳  毛慧玲 《地震研究》2011,34(3)

利用云南大姚地震台记录到的2009年姚安6.0级地震余震序列的数字化波形观测资料,基于尾波单次散射理论,估算该次地震震源区尾波Qc值。结果表明:中心频率为1.5 Hz时,振幅衰减率β(f)在-0.141 27～-0.043 05之间,平均值为-0.074 60;Qc值在33.3～99.8之间,平均值为65.5。并得出Qc值与频率的关系:尾波波源因子与震级成正比,与频率成反比。主震发生后头几天,尾波Qc值(1.5 Hz)波动较大,之后在±1.5倍方差线内趋于稳定,且没有超过5级的强余震发生。姚安地区尾波Qc值具有构造运动活跃、地震活动频繁地区的低Qc值特征。  相似文献