Blind deconvolution aims at recovering both the source wavelet and the Green’s function (e.g. reflectivity series) from a recorded seismic trace. A multitude of algorithms exist which tackle this ill-posed problem by different approaches. Making assumptions on the phase spectra of the source wavelet and/or the statistical distribution of the reflectivity series are useful for single traces. The...

[1] Fundamental mode Rayleigh waves recorded by the Transportable Array component of EarthScope/USArray from January 2006 through April 2007 are used to generate phase velocity maps at periods from 25 to 100 sec across the western U.S., including Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada and western Idaho. At short periods (25–33 s), low velocity anomalies are observed in western Washington, weste...

Joint inversions are now commonly used in the earth sciences. They have been developed to better understand the structure of the earth, since they provide more constraints on the inverted parameters. We propose a new process to simultaneously invert several data sets in order to better image 3D crustal and upper mantle structures. Our inversion uses three kinds of data that present good complem...

We present a rupture model of the Northridge earthquake, determined from the joint inversion of near-source strong ground motion recordings, P and SH teleseismic body waves, Global Positioning System (GPS) displacement vectors, and permanent uplift measured along leveling lines. The fault is defined to strike 122 ° and dip 40 ° to the south-southwest. The average rake vector is determined to be...

The high-frequency content observed in teleseisms recorded by seismometers can be produced either by the nonlinear behavior of seismometers and digitizers (Delorey et al. 2008; Hellweg et al. 2008) or by the real Earth response. The latter include scattering from small-scale heterogeneities during seismic wave propagation (e.g., Chen and Long 2000) and high-frequency radiations from the earthqu...

[1] A pulse-like disturbance traveling across the Los Angeles basin was observed on 12 October 2001 with seismographs of the TriNet network. This wave had a period of about 1000 s and a propagation speed of about 10 m/s, much slower than seismic waves. The seismograph data were compared with barograph data, and a good correlation was found so the wave was determined to be atmospheric in origin....

The Moho discontinuity plays an important role in crustal growth and evolution. In this study, we delineate the geometry southern California by jointly using local Moho-reflected waves PmP teleseismic Moho-converted Ps. To well constrain geometry, have developed a two-stage process to pick created reliable travel time data set with total of 10,192 picks. We also extracted 38,648 high-quality P-...

Shear wave splitting due to source-side mantle anisotropy is estimated from broadband teleseismic and local S waves using a suite of Aegean subduction zone events. The data have been recorded by Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute (KOERI) stations, at the depth of more than 30 km, from 2000 to 2007. We assume that there are at most two anisotropic regions along the ray path: ...