Development of Regional Phase Tomographic Attenuation Models for Eurasia

Abstract

We are developing regional-phase (Pn, Pg, Sn, Lg) tomographic attenuation models for Eurasia. The models will be integrated into the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Knowledge Base and used in the Magnitude and Distance Amplitude Correction (MDAC) station calibration for the development of regional seismic discriminants. Our current focus is on Pn, an extremely important phase in seismic event identification. Accurately accounting for regional-phase geometric spreading is critical for the development of useful attenuation models. It is particularly important for Pn and Sn waves because the propagation mode of these waves makes them more susceptible to upper mantle velocity structures and the Earth's sphericity, which in turn causes the geometric spreading of Pn (and Sn) to be dependent on frequency as well as on range in a complicated way. We conduct numerical simulations to quantify Pn and Sn geometric spreading in a spherical Earth model with constant mantle velocities.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA519674

Entities

People

  • Marie D. Arrowsmith
  • Thorne Lay
  • Xiao-bi Xie
  • Xiaoning Yang

Organizations

  • University of California, Santa Cruz

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Attenuation
  • Central Asia
  • Coefficients
  • Earth Models
  • Eurasia
  • Explosions
  • Frequency
  • Ground Based
  • Identification
  • Monitoring
  • Nuclear Explosions
  • Simulations
  • Standards
  • Two Dimensional
  • Wave Packets
  • Wave Propagation

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Seismology