Despite the strength of seismic interferometry to retrieve new seismic responses by crosscorrelating observations at different receiver locations, the method relies on a number of assumptions which are not always fulfilled in practice. Some practical circumstances that may hamper interferometry by crosscorrelation are: one-sided illumination, irregular source distribution, varying source spectr...

One of the most common and challenging problems in seismology is the prediction of source-receiver paths taken by seismic energy in the presence of lateral variations in wavespeed. The solution to this problem is required in many applications that exploit the high frequency component of seismic records, such as body wave tomography, migration of reflection data and earthquake relocation. The pr...

The Paleocene/Eocene thermal maximum (PETM) was a time of rapid global warming in both marine and continental realms that has been attributed to a massive methane (CH4) release from marine gas hydrate reservoirs. Previously proposed mechanisms for this methane release rely on a change in deepwater source region(s) to increase water temperatures rapidly enough to trigger the massive thermal diss...

In passive seismic monitoring, full wavefield imaging offers a robust approach for the estimation of source location and mechanism. With multicomponent data and the full anisotropic elastic wave equation, the coexistence of Pand Smodes at the source location in time-reversal modeling allows the development of imaging conditions that identify the source position and radiation pattern. We propose...

Earthquake faulting at ~600 km depth remains puzzling. Here we present a new kinematic interpretation of two Mw7.6 earthquakes of November 24, 2015. In contrast to teleseismic analysis of this doublet, we use regional seismic data providing robust two-point source models, further validated by regional back-projection and rupture-stop analysis. The doublet represents segmented rupture of a ∼30-y...

[1] In contrast to far-field tsunami amplitudes that are fairly well predicted by the seismic moment of subduction zone earthquakes, there exists significant variation in the scaling of local tsunami amplitude with respect to seismic moment. From a global catalog of tsunami runup observations this variability is greatest for the most frequently occurring tsunamigenic subduction zone earthquakes...

We have detected dozens of previously unknown, moderate earthquakes beneath large glaciers. The seismic radiation from these earthquakes is depleted at high frequencies, explaining their nondetection by traditional methods. Inverse modeling of the long-period seismic waveforms from the best-recorded earthquake, in southern Alaska, shows that the seismic source is well represented by stick-slip,...

Scaling of dynamic rupture processes from small to large earthquakes is critical to seismic hazard assessment. Large subduction earthquakes are typically remote, and we mostly rely on teleseismic body waves to extract information on their slip rate functions. We estimate the P wave source spectra of 942 thrust earthquakes of magnitude Mw 5.5 and above by carefully removing wave propagation effe...

[1] We study the scaling relationships of source parameters and the self-similarity of earthquake spectra by analyzing a cluster of over 400 small earthquakes (ML = 0.5 to 3.4) recorded by the Anza seismic network in southern California. We compute P, S, and preevent noise spectra from each seismogram using a multitaper technique and approximate source and receiver terms by iteratively stacking...

In this paper we analyze the signals from passive infrared (PIR) and seismic sensors to detect people. The PIR data analysis is done to determine the radiation source such as a human or an animal based on the signal strength, slopes of the signals, the number of Fresnel lens zones crossed by the target. The seismic data analysis is done to ascertain whether the footsteps belong to a human or an...