Body-wave interferometry using regional earthquakes with multidimensional deconvolution after wavefield decomposition at free surface

Author(s)
Nori Nakata, Roel Snieder, Michael Behm
Abstract

Passive seismic methods using earthquakes can be applied for extracting body waves andobtaining information of subsurface structure. In this study, we retrieve direct and reflectedplane waves by applying seismic interferometry to the recorded ground motion from a clusterof regional earthquakes. We apply upgoing/downgoing P/S wavefield decomposition, timewindowing, and multidimensional deconvolution to improve the quality of the extraction ofreflected waves with seismic interferometry. The wavefield separation and seismic interferometrybased on multidimensional deconvolution allow us to reconstruct PP, PS, SP and SSreflected waves without unwanted crosstalk between P and S waves. From earthquake data,we obtain PP, PS and SS reflected plane waves that reflect off the same reflector, and estimateP- and S-wave velocities.

Organisation(s)
Department of Meteorology and Geophysics
External organisation(s)
Stanford University, Colorado School of Mines
Journal
Geophysical Journal International
Volume
199
Pages
1125-1137
No. of pages
13
ISSN
0956-540X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggu316
Publication date
2014
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
105126 Applied geophysics, 105122 Seismic, 105124 Tectonics, 105102 General geophysics
Keywords
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Geochemistry and Petrology, Geophysics
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/d59e974d-e352-42ea-8931-0f1edd6f2d57