Unraveling the function and evolutionary history of multimodal signaling is a difficult, yet common task of much research in animal communication. Here, I investigated multimodal signal function in the visual and seismic courtship display of the wolf spider Schizocosa stridulans and found that only the seismic courtship signal was important for mating success. First, copulation frequency was as...

The incremental dynamic analysis is a powerful tool for evaluating the seismic vulnerability and risk of buildings. It allows calculating the global damage of structures for different PGAs and representing this result by means of damage curves. Such curves are used by many methods to obtain seismic risk scenarios at urban level. Even if the use of this method in a probabilistic environment requ...

Modern seismic sensors are capable of recording high precision vibration data continuously for several months. Seismic raw data consists of information regarding earthquake’s origin time, location, wave velocity, etc. Currently, these high volume data are gathered manually from each station for analysis. This process restricts us from obtaining high-resolution images in real-time. A new in-netw...

[1] Since it has already been demonstrated that point-topoint seismic propagation Green Functions can be extracted from seismic noise, it should be possible to image Earth structure using the ambient noise field. Seismic noise data from 148 broadband seismic stations in Southern California were used to extract the surface wave arrival-times between all station pairs in the network. The seismic ...

In many seismically active regions of Central Asia, weak water-saturated sandy and silty-clayed soils are widely spread; industrial and civil facilities of various purposes are built and operated on them. The operating experience, macro-seismic examinations of earthquake consequences and the results of laboratory and field investigations show that the strength and deformational characteristics ...

Carbonate reservoir rocks of different pore structure have quite distinct and detectable 4D seismic signatures. Using three defined pore structure types (PST), these seismic signatures are correlated with the permeability patterns of carbonate rocks. In both the high-permeability PST3 and intermediate-permeability PST2 regions, gas injection is preferred than water injection for effective 4D se...

In order to meet the needs of performance-based seismic design, a new type of adaptive-slit shear wall that is easy to construct and behaves well under cyclic loading is introduced to improve the seismic performance of conventional shear wall structures. The seismic damage of an adaptive-slit shear wall develops gradually and it transforms from integral wall into slit wall. The mechanical chara...

Seismic modeling is an integral part of the seismic data processing for oil and gas exploration, as it provides us the seismic response for a given earth model. Grid enabled seismic wave modeling can facilitate users in the area of geophysics to calculate synthetic seismograms using federated HPC resources and complex solution algorithms without knowing their complexities. The present paper is ...

Seismic-protection measures make it possible to significantly decrease economical losses. Seismic shock absorption systems and seismic insulation of foundations and buildings can generally increase the reliability of structures. Calculations by Ja. M. Ajzenberg showed that relative horizontal seismic shifts of floors in seismically insulated buildings are significantly lower than in noninsulate...

Optimal reservoir management requires reliable reservoir performance forecasts with as little uncertainty as possible. There is a need for improved techniques for dynamic data intergration to construct realistic reservoir models by using geostatistical techniques. This paper gives a method to create porosity models that honor interpreted pore volumes from well test data. Well porosity data, sei...