Physics – Geophysics
Scientific paper
Apr 1994
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994georl..21..729k&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 21, no. 8, p. 729-732
Physics
Geophysics
4
Earthquakes, Genetic Algorithms, Geodynamics, Geophysics, Monte Carlo Method, P Waves, Propagation Velocity, Seismology, Wave Propagation, Iterative Solution, Japan, Mathematical Models, Nonlinear Systems, Optimization, Parameterization
Scientific paper
Genetic algorithms are a new class of methods for global optimization. They resemble Monte Carlo techniques, but search for solutions more efficiently than uniform Monte Carlo sampling. In the field of geophysics, genetic algorithms have recently been used to solve some non-linear inverse problems (e.g., earthquake location, waveform inversion, migration velocity estimation). We present an application of genetic algorithms to focal mechanism determination from first-motion polarities of P-waves and apply our method to two recent large events, the Kushiro-oki earthquake of January 15, 1993 and the SW Hokkaido (Japan Sea) earthquake of July 12, 1993. Initial solution and curvature information of the objective function that gradient methods need are not required in our approach. Moreover globally optimal solutions can be efficiently obtained. Calculation of polarities based on double-couple models is the most time-consuming part of the source mechanism determination. The amount of calculations required by the method designed in this study is much less than that of previous grid search methods.
Kobayashi Reiji
Nakanishi Ichiro
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