INTRODUCTION IN 1953, through cooperation of the Bernard Price Geophysical Institute of the University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Natal, a Columbia University-type long-period seismometer (To = 15 sec., Tg = 75 sec.) was installed in the seismological observatory of the University of Natal at Pietermaritzburg, Union of South Africa. This instrument was well situated for receivin...

Passive seismic characterization is an environmentally friendly method to estimate the properties of subsurface. Among its applications, we find monitoring geothermal reservoirs. One key characteristic ensure a productive management these reservoirs degree fracture connectivity and evolution, as it affects flow fluids within formation. In this work, explore effects on Rayleigh wave velocity dis...

The governing equations of an initially stressed, rotating and transversely isotropic thermoelastic solid permeated with magnetic field are solved for surface wave solutions. The appropriate particular solutions in the half-space satisfy the required boundary conditions at a thermally insulated stress free surface. A velocity equation is obtained for wave speed of thermo-elastic Rayleigh wave. ...

The analysis of acoustic waves generated by a transient normal point load applied on a fluid–solid interface is presented. The closed-form exact solution of the wave motion is obtained by using integral transform techniques. The obtained analytical solution provides necessary theoretical background for optimization of fluid-coupled ultrasonic and acoustic wave detection in experiments. Numerica...

[1] Measurement of basement seismic resonance frequencies can elucidate shallow velocity structure, an important factor in earthquake hazard estimation. Ambient noise cross correlation, which is well-suited to studying shallow earth structure, is commonly used to analyze fundamental-mode Rayleigh waves and, increasingly, Love waves. Here we show via multicomponent ambient noise cross correlatio...