Rayleigh Waves from High Gain Long-Period Stations: Signal Extraction; Amplitude Determination; and Separation of Overlapping Wave Trains

Abstract

Rayleigh waves are extracted and amplitudes (with standard errors) and origin time (within a few seconds) determined by use of reference earthquakes or explosions, high pass (HP) and normalized matched (NM) (or correlation) filters, and the oceanic group-velocity dispersion between 38 and 18 seconds. For a signal-to-noise ratio between 0.2 and 0.1 on the original single-component records, amplitudes for Rayleigh waves over oceanic paths of 155 degrees at station MAT and 98 degrees at station KIP have been determined as 12 m(mu) (10 digital units) and 24 m(mu) (25 digital units) peak-to-peak (p-p), respectively, with a standard error of less than 11%. In each case the processed signal is the highest in a half-hour processed record. The method also provides high resolution of co-located events with short time separation, or widely spaced events with Rayleigh waves arriving nearly simultaneously at a single station.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1974
Accession Number
ADA004486

Entities

People

  • Eduard Berg

Organizations

  • University of HawaiĘ»i System

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Chirp Filters
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Cross Correlation
  • Detection
  • Digital Data
  • Elastic Waves
  • Filters
  • Filtration
  • Frequency
  • Geophysics
  • High Gain
  • High Pass Filters
  • Matched Filters
  • Rayleigh Waves
  • Surface Waves

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Mathematics or Statistics
  • Seismology

Technology Areas

  • Space