Empirical approaches for fast robust inversion of seismic moment tensor from surface waves

Details Empirical approaches for fast robust inversion of seismic moment tensor from surface waves Empirical approaches for fast robust inversion of seismic moment tensor from surface waves

Apr 2010

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Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 37, Issue 7, CiteID L07307

Physics

Geophysics

Mathematical Geophysics: Inverse Theory, Seismology: Surface Waves And Free Oscillations, Seismology: Earthquake Source Observations (1240)

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We present a method of robust inversion (also called IRLS: Iterative Reweighted Least Squares) which is surprisingly insensitive to outlier data points, as it discards automatically the aberrant points, without the necessity for careful human inspection and control of data quality. Different criteria based on residuals and signal-to-noise ratio are injected into the covariance matrix (acting like a weighting function), to perform the robust inversion using the iterative generalized discrete inverse method of Tarantola-Valette. From a practical point of view, this algorithm is used as the Preliminary Determination of Focal Mechanism (PDFM) method, which is a project for rapid estimation of source parameters of strong earthquakes in the context of tsunami warning. The input data to be inverted are spectra of long period surface waves, and as an output, the computed result is the seismic moment tensor, from which focal geometry of an earthquake, and principal stress axes are obtained. This method can be applied to any other method of non-linear (iterative) inversions confronted to the problem of outlier points polluting the data sets.

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