The earthquake response spectrum is the most popular tool in the seismic analysis and design of structures. In the case of combined Primary-Secondary (P-S) systems, the response of the supporting P substructure is generally evaluated without considering the S substructure, which in turn is only required to bear displacements and/or forces imposed by the P one (“cascade” approach). In doing so, ...

Hypocenter and focal mechanism of an earthquake can be determined by the analysis of signals, named waveforms, related to the wave field produced and recorded by a seismic network. Assuming that waveform similarity implies the similarity of focal parameters, the analysis of those signals characterized by very similar shapes can be used to give important details about the physical phenomena whic...

[1] In this study, we analyze continuous data from all Global Seismographic Network stations between year 2000 and 2009 and demonstrate that several body wave phases (e.g., PP, PcPPKP, SKSP, and PPS) propagating between nearly antipodal station pairs can be clearly observed without array stacking using the noise/coda cross-correlation method. Based on temporal correlations with global seismicit...

Coda-wave interferometry is a technique to detect small seismic velocity changes using phase changes in similar waveforms from repeating natural or artificial sources. Seismic interferometry is another technique for detecting seismic velocity changes from cross-correlation functions of ambient seismic noise. We simultaneously use these two techniques to clarify seismic velocity changes at Sakur...

SUMMARY Temporal variations in the elastic behavior of the Earth's crust can be monitored through the analysis of the Earth's seismic response and its evolution with time. This kind of analysis is particularly interesting when combined with the reconstruction of seismic Green's functions from the cross-correlation of ambient seismic noise, which circumvents the limitations imposed by a dependen...

SUMMARY Seismic interferometry is from a computationally point of view based on cross-correlating two signals. One application of seismic interferometry lies in passive seismics. In passive seismic recorders are placed on the surface of the earth and signals are continuously measured. In this abstract we investigated an efficient way of computing the cross-correlation, of a limited number of ou...

Subsurface geological cross sections of 0 200 m depth were constructed using a dense drilling database of the Osaka Plain in the intra-arc Osaka Basin of the Japan island arc, an active plate margin. The cross sections revealed the subsurface geological structures and the geometry of folding and faulting in the basin. The comparison between the constructed subsurface cross sections and the seis...

Single-scattering imaging consists of two steps: wavefield extrapolation, whose goal is to reconstruct source and receiver wavefields from recorded data, and an imaging, whose goal is to extract from the extrapolated wavefields the locations where reflectors occur. Conventionally, the imaging condition indicates the presence of reflectors when the propagation time of reflections in the source a...

[1] It has been demonstrated experimentally and theoretically that an estimate of the Green’s function between two seismic stations can be obtained from the time-derivative of the long-time average cross correlation of ambient noise between these two stations. This TDGF estimate from just the noise field includes all tensor components of the Green’s function and these Green’s function estimates...

Single-scattering imaging consists of two steps: wavefield extrapolation, to reconstruct source and receiver wavefields from recorded data, and imaging, to extract from the extrapolated wavefields the locations where reflectors occur. Conventionally, the imaging condition indicates the presence of reflectors when the propagation time of reflections in the source and receiver wavefields match. T...