Regional estimation of Q from seismic coda observations by the Gauribidanur seismic array (southern India)

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Attenuation properties of the lithosphere in southern India are estimated from 1219 vertical-component, short-period observations of microearthquake codas recorded by the Gauribidanur seismic array. The magnitudes of the earthquakes range from 0.3 to 3.7 and have focal depths less than 10km. Coda-wave attenuation (Qc-1) is estimated by means of a single isotropic scattering method and a multiple lapse time window analysis based on the hypothesis of multiple isotropic scattering and uniform distribution of scatterers is used to estimate the contribution of intrinsic absorption (Qi-1) and scattering (Qs-1) to total attenuation (Qt-1). All the attenuation parameters are estimated, as a function of frequency for hypocentral distances up to 255km. Results show a frequency dependent relation of the Qc-1 values in the range 1-10Hz that fit the power law Q-1(f)=Q0-1(f/f0)ηAQ0-1 value of 0.014 and a decrease of f-1.2 have been found using data from the whole region. On the other hand, scattering attenuation is found to be greater than intrinsic absorption for all the frequency bands. A high value of the seismic albedo (which ranges from 0.68 to 1) is found which indicates that scattering is the dominant effect in the study region. Nevertheless, the attenuation parameters estimated are much lower than the obtained for other regions in the world. On the other hand, the observed energy at 0-15s from the S-wave arrival time bends significantly downward with decreasing distance. In order to clarify this phenomenon, there is a need to take into account the vertical varying velocity structure in the theoretical model.

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