Locating and quantifying the seismic discontinuities in a complex medium through the migration and AVA analysis of reflected and converted waves: an application to the Mt Vesuvius volcano     

E. Auger  J. Virieux  A. Zollo 《Geophysical Journal International》2003,152(2):486-496

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Shear wave statics using receiver functions   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

D. van Manen  J. O. A. Robertsson  A. Curtis  R. Ferber  H. Paulssen 《Geophysical Journal International》2003,153(3):F1-F5

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Explosion seismic reflections from the Earth’s core     

H Thybo  A.R Ross 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》2003,216(4):693-702

Recent seismological studies have presented evidence for the existence of a layer with ultra-low seismic velocities at the core-mantle boundary at ca. 2900 km depth. We report high-amplitude, high-frequency, and laterally coherent seismic arrivals from three nuclear explosions in Siberia. With recording station intervals of 15 km, the seismic phases are readily correlated and show the presence of a thin, ultra-low velocity zone in a region where it was not previously reported. The duration and complexity of the arrivals are inconsistent with a simple core-mantle boundary and require a hitherto unidentified, kilometre-scale, fine structure in the ultra-low velocity zone. The observations may be explained by a ca. 7 km thick, two-layer, ultra-low velocity zone with exceptional low velocities, which indicate the presence of high percentages of melt (>15%), in particular in the lower part of the zone. Waveform variation implies lateral change in the thickness and physical properties of the ultra-low velocity zone with a wavelength of less than 100 km.  相似文献   

A millennial-scale record of Holocene tsunamis on the Kronotskiy Bay coast, Kamchatka, Russia     

Tatiana K PineginaJoanne Bourgeois  Lilia I BazanovaIvan V Melekestsev  Olga A Braitseva 《Quaternary Research》2003,59(1):36-47

Deposits from as many as 50 large tsunamis during the last 7000 years are preserved on the Pacific coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula near the mouth of the Zhupanova River, southern Kronotskiy Bay. These deposits are dated and correlated using Holocene marker tephra layers. The combined, preserved record of tsunami deposits and of numerous marker tephras on Kamchatka offers an unprecedented opportunity to study tsunami frequency. For example, from the stratigraphy along southern Kronotskiy Bay, we estimate frequency of large tsunamis (>5 m runup). In the last 3000 years, the minimum frequency is about one large tsunami per 100 years, and the maximum about one large tsunami per 30 years; the latter frequency occurred from about 0 to 1000 A.D. This time interval corresponds to a period of increased seismicity and volcanic activity that appears to be recorded in many places on the Kamchatka Peninsula.  相似文献   

云闪放电通道发展及其辐射特征   总被引：3，自引：5，他引：3  

董万胜  刘欣生  张义军  王怀斌 《高原气象》2003,22(3):221-225

利用闪电宽带干涉仪系统,对中国南方(广东)地区云闪时空演变特征、辐射及其相应电场变化特征进行分析研究。根据云闪电场变化波形,云闪放电过程可划分成活跃阶段和最后阶段,辐射源定位结果表明,云闪放电起始于向上发展的负击穿过程,通道向上发展的速度约为3～3.3×105m·s-1。云闪放电的主通道在活跃阶段形成,该期间辐射源随时间演变和相应电场变化表明,云内电荷结构具有上正下负的偶极性电荷结构。云闪的最后阶段辐射源主要在早期形成的通道内出现,其辐射源活动特征与地闪的回击过程比较相似;云闪辐射能量主要集中在2～3MHz以下的低频段,且辐射强度随频率增加迅速减弱。  相似文献   

The mechanisms of shallow earthquakes and the monitoring of a comprehensive test ban     

David Bowers  David A. McCormack 《Geophysical Journal International》1997,128(3):701-707

The ability of seismological criteria to identify earthquakes from underground explosions depends partly on the orientation of the earthquake source. Well-determined double-couple moment tensor solutions for a large number of earthquakes have been published in the Harvard centroid moment tensor (CMT) and United Slates Geological Survey (USGS) catalogues. Statistical analyses of these catalogues indicate that the distribution of the orientation of earthquake mechanisms is not random. The distribution of the T axes shows significant clustering around the downward vertical, indicating that a larger number of earthquake mechanisms radiate compressional P -wave energy to teleseismic distances from near the maximum of the radiation pattern than is predicted if earthquake sources are randomly oriented double couples. The clustered T axes correspond to compressional dip-slip mechanisms, and it is this type of mechanism which is believed to cause both the m _b: M _s (the ratio of body-wave to surface-wave magnitude) and first-motion criteria to misidentify an earthquake as an explosion.  相似文献   

Observability of the isotropic component of a moment tensor     

Hitoshi Kawakatsu 《Geophysical Journal International》1996,126(2):525-544

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410 km discontinuity sharpness and the form of the olivine α-β phase diagram: resolution of apparent seismic contradictions     

George R. Helffrich  Bernard J. Wood 《Geophysical Journal International》1996,126(2):F7-F12

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Determination of the isotropic component of deep focus earthquakes by inversion of normal-mode data     

Tatsuhiko Hara  Keiko Kuge  Hitoshi Kawakatsu 《Geophysical Journal International》1996,127(2):515-528

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Outline of the Great Hanshin earthquake, Japan 1995     

Takashi Okimura  Shiro Takada  Teng Hye Koid 《Natural Hazards》1996,14(1):39-71

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