Use of long-period surface waves for rapid determination of earthquake-source parameters

Details Use of long-period surface waves for rapid determination of earthquake-source parameters Use of long-period surface waves for rapid determination of earthquake-source parameters

Oct 1981

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Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Volume 27, Issue 1, p. 8-31.

Physics

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A method for rapid retrieval of earthquake-source parameters from long-period surface waves is developed. With this method, the fault geometry and seismic moment can be determined immediately after the surface wave records have been retrieved. Hence, it may be utilized for warning of tsunamis in real time. The surface wave spectra are inverted to produce either a seismic moment tensor (linear) or a fault model (nonlinear). The method has been tested by using the IDA (International Deployment of Accelerographs) records. With these records the method works well for the events larger than Ms = 6, and is useful for investigating the nature of slow earthquakes.
For events deeper than 30 km, all of the five moment tensor elements can be determined. For very shallow events (d <= 30 km) the inversion becomes ill-conditioned and two of the five source moment tensor elements become unresolvable. This difficulty is circumvented by a two-step inversion. In the first step, the unresolvable elements are constrained to be zero to yield a first approximation. In the second step, additional geological and geophysical data are incorporated to improve the first approximation. The effect of the source finiteness is also included.

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