Stable inversions for complete moment tensors

Details Stable inversions for complete moment tensors Stable inversions for complete moment tensors

Aug 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008geoji.174..585m&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Journal International, Volume 174, Issue 2, pp. 585-592.

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Computation

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Inverse Theory, Earthquake Source Observations, Seismic Monitoring And Test-Ban Treaty Verification, Volcano Seismology, Computational Seismology, Theoretical Seismology

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The seismic moment tensors for certain types of sources, such as volcanic earthquakes and nuclear explosions are expected to contain an isotropic component. Some earlier efforts to calculate the isotropic component of these sources are flawed due to an error in the method of Jost & Herrmann. We corrected the method after Herrmann & Hutchensen and found great improvement in the recovery of non-double-couple moment tensors that include an isotropic component. Tests with synthetic data demonstrate the stability of the corrected linear inversion method, and we recalculate the moment tensor solutions reported in Dreger et al. for Long Valley caldera events and Dreger & Woods for Nevada Test Site nuclear explosions. We confirm the findings of Dreger et al. that the Long Valley volcanic sources contain large statistically significant isotropic components. The nuclear explosions have strikingly anomalous source mechanisms, which contain very large isotropic components, making it evident that these events are not tectonic in origin. This indicates that moment tensor inversions could be an important tool for nuclear monitoring.

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