Complex scattering within Dâ•3 observed on the very dense Los Angeles Region Seismic Experiment Passive Array

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  • M. D. Kohler
  • J. E. Vidale
  • P. M. Davis
چکیده

Several seismic phases that scattered within a few hundred kilometers of the base of the mantle are observed in a very dense seismic section. The Los Angeles Region Seismic Experiment passive phase array was composed of 88 seismometers placed along a 175 km profile. Records from two deep earthquakes in Tonga and one earthquake near Honshu, Japan show a secondary arrival between clear P and PcP arrivals. Modeling with layered structures shows that the Tonga and Honshu seismic sections are consistent with an increase in seismic velocity 140 and 240 km above the core-mantle boundary, respectively, and a10-km thick low-velocity zone at the base of the mantle beneath a region in the mid Pacific. Several of these arrivals are not coherent enough to appear in higher resolution stacks from the much larger Southern California Seismic Network. This experiment illustrates that finescale passive array data can reveal small-scale deep Earth structure invisible to larger-scale seismic networks.

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تاریخ انتشار 2007