The concept of controlling seismic waves is in progress and first full-scale experiments had confirmed the interest which we can have for this new axis of research. The possibility of imagining a seismic 2D or 3D metamaterial made of a grid of inclusions or empty boreholes in the soil, interacting with a part of the earthquake signal is becoming realistic. Here we show the dynamic response of a...

We study transport for a scalar model of Love waves. These waves arise in the propagation of seismic waves whose energy is concentrated in the vicinity of the earth surface. We derive radiative transfer equations from rst principles for the angularly resolved energy density of the Love waves in a simpliied acoustic model. We consider a rough top surface with weak uctuations at the scale of the ...

The propagation of seismic waves through Earth can now be modeled accurately with the recently developed spectral-element method. This method takes into account heterogeneity in Earth models, such as three-dimensional variations of seismic wave velocity, density, and crustal thickness. The method is implemented on relatively inexpensive clusters of personal computers, so-called Beowulf machines...

The solar seismic waves excited by solar flares (" sunquakes ") are observed as circular expanding waves on the Sun's surface. The first sunquake was observed for a flare of July 9, 1996, from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) space mission. However, when the new solar cycle started in 1997, the observations of solar flares from SOHO did not show the seismic waves, similar to the 19...

A novel device, called vibrating barrier (ViBa), that aims to reduce the vibrations of adjacent structures subjected to ground motion waves is proposed. The ViBa is a structure buried in the soil and detached from surrounding buildings that is able to absorb a significant portion of the dynamic energy arising from the ground motion. The working principle exploits the dynamic interaction among v...

S U M M A R Y Recent development in seismology has shown that seismic noise is a useful source of Earth structure study. Non-linear interaction of ocean waves is considered to be one of the important causes for seismic noise, although source locations and detailed mechanisms are not clear yet. In order to improve our understanding of this mechanism quantitatively, we derive a normal-mode excita...

Topography influences ground motion and, in general, increases the amplitude of shaking at mountain tops and ridges, whereas valleys have reduced ground motions, as is observed from data recorded during and after real earthquakes and from numerical simulations. However, recent publications have focused mainly on the implications for ground motion in the mountainous regions themselves, whereas t...

Seismic design loads for tunnels are characterized in terms of the deformations imposed on the structure by surrounding ground. The free-field ground deformations due to a seismic event are estimated, and the tunnel is designed to accommodate these deformations. Vertically propagating shear waves are the predominant form of earthquake loading that causes the ovaling deformations of circular tun...

BACKGROUND Existence of flows and convection is an essential and integral feature of many excitable media with wave propagation modes, such as blood coagulation or bioreactors. METHODS/RESULTS Here, propagation of two-dimensional waves is studied in parabolic channel flow of excitable medium of the FitzHugh-Nagumo type. Even if the stream velocity is hundreds of times higher that the wave vel...