Advances in Seismic Event Location

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-1

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2. Advances in Global Seismic Event Location

   • Clifford H. Thurber, E. Robert Engdahl

   Pages 3-22

3. Hypocenter Location Using a Constrained Nonlinear Simplex Minimization Method

   • Nitzan Rabinowitz

   Pages 23-49

4. A Statistical Outlook on the Problem of Seismic Network Configuration

   • Nitzan Rabinowitz, David M. Steinberg

   Pages 51-69

5. Advances in Travel-Time Calculations for Three-Dimensional Structures

   • Clifford H. Thurber, Edi Kissling

   Pages 71-99

6. Probabilistic Earthquake Location in 3D and Layered Models

   • Anthony Lomax, Jean Virieux, Philippe Volant, Catherine Berge-Thierry

   Pages 101-134

7. Location Calibration Based on 3-D Modelling

   • Petr Firbas

   Pages 135-161

8. Joint Event Location — The JHD Technique and Applications to Data from Local Seismic Networks

   • Jose Pujol

   Pages 163-204

9. Automated Event Location by Seismic Arrays and Recent Methods for Enhancement

   • Manfred Joswig

   Pages 205-230

10. Automatic Phase Pick Refinement and Similar Event Association in Large Seismic Datasets

    • Richard Aster, Charlotte Rowe

    Pages 231-263

11. Back Matter

    Pages 265-267

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Advances in Seismic Event Location provides a broad overview of the fundamental issues involved in seismic event location, and presents a variety of state-of-the-art location methods and applications at a wide range of spatial scales. Three important themes in the book are: seismic monitoring for a Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), seismic event location in three-dimensional Earth models, and methods for multiple-event location. Each chapter contains background material to help readers less familiar with the topics covered, as well as to provide abundant references for readers interested in probing deeper into a topic. However, most of the emphasis is on recent advances in methodology and their application.
Audience: The book is intended primarily for academic and professional researchers and graduate students in seismology.

• earthquake
• linear optimization
• networks
• seismic
• seismology

• Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA

  Clifford H. Thurber

• Geophysical Institute of Israel, Lod, Israel

  Nitzan Rabinowitz

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