1. Information from Seismic Noise.
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Weaver, Richard L.
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MICROSEISMS , *SEISMOLOGY , *SEISMOMETERS , *SURFACE waves (Fluids) , *FLUID dynamics - Abstract
In this article the authors have analyzed seismic noise to obtain new information on the structure of Earth's crust. By correlating the data from a month of ambient noise due in part to wave-wave interactions in the ocean 2 detected by 62 long-period seismograph stations in southern California, they determined the seismic response that they would have obtained from Earth's crust if they had applied forces at each of their stations. In particular, they measured the times that it took for seismic surface waves to propagate between every pair of stations. They then used lomographic techniques to create a map of seismic wave velocity with an unprecedented horizontal resolution of 75 to 100 km.
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- 2005
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