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Scattering and Attenuations of Seismic Waves, Part I

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Editors:
  1. Keiiti Aki

    1. Department of Geological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

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  2. Ru-Shan Wu

    1. Physics Dept. & Richter Seismological Lab., University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. Introduction: Seismic Wave Scattering in Three-dimensionally Heterogeneous Earth

    • Ru-Shan Wu, Keiiti Aki
    Pages 1-6

  3. Synthesis of Coda Waves in Layered Medium

    • Chien-Ying Wang, Robert B. Herrmann
    Pages 7-42

  4. Is the Single Scattering Model Invalid for the Coda Excitation at Long Lapse Time?

    • Haruo Sato
    Pages 43-47

  5. Multiple Scattering and Energy Transfer of Seismic Waves—Separation of Scattering Effect from Intrinsic Attenuation II. Application of the Theory to Hindu Kush Region

    • Ru-Shan Wu, Keiiti Aki
    Pages 49-80

  6. A Model for Attenuation and Scattering in the Earth’s Crust

    • M. Nafi Toksöz, Anton M. Dainty, Edmund Reiter, Ru-Shan Wu
    Pages 81-100

  7. Reflection and Transmission of Plane Waves by a Layer of Compact Inhomogeneities

    • J. D. Achenbach, M. Kitahara, Y. Mikata, D. A. Sotiropoulos
    Pages 101-118

  8. Rayleigh Wave Scattering at Wedge Corners with Major Wedge Angles

    • Masayoshi Nakano, Kazunari Fujii, Shozaburo Takeuchi
    Pages 119-132

  9. Vector-Scattering of Elastic Waves by Directional Structural Space Gradients

    • Ari Ben-Menahem
    Pages 133-146

  10. Dispersion of Seismic Waves by a Causal Approach

    • Abraham I. Beltzer
    Pages 147-156

  11. Numerical-analytical Interfacing in Two Dimensions with Applications to Modeling NTS Seismograms

    • Richard J. Stead, Donald V. Helmberger
    Pages 157-193

  12. Seismic Energy Partitioning and Scattering in Laterally Heterogeneous Ocean Crust

    • Martin E. Dougherty, Ralph A. Stephen
    Pages 195-229

  13. Observations of Teleseismic P Wave Coda for Underground Explosions

    • Christopher S. Lynnes, Thorne Lay
    Pages 231-249

  14. Spatial Variation of Crustal Coda Q in California

    • W. Scott Phillips, W. H. K. Lee, James T. Newberry
    Pages 251-260

  15. Coda-Q Before and After the 1983 Misasa Earthquake of M 6.2, Tottori Prefecture, Japan

    • Tameshige Tsukuda
    Pages 261-279

  16. The Objective Determination of the Instantaneous Predominant Frequency of Seismic Signals and Inferences on Q of Coda Waves

    • Antonio Rovelli, Sandro Marcucci, Giuliano Milana
    Pages 281-293

  17. Frequency Dependent Characteristics of Coda Wave Quality Factor in Central and Southcentral Alaska

    • G. J. Steensma, N. N. Biswas
    Pages 295-307

  18. Comparison of Amplitude Decay Rates in Reflection, Refraction, and Local Earthquake Records

    • Bruce S. Gibson
    Pages 309-331

  19. The Information Content of High-frequency Seismograms and the Near-Surface Geologic Structure of “Hard Rock” Recording Sites

    • Edward Cranswick
    Pages 333-363

  20. Theoretical Background for the Inversion of Seismic Waveforms, Including Elasticity and Attenuation

    • Albert Tarantola
    Pages 365-399
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Geological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

    Keiiti Aki

  • Physics Dept. & Richter Seismological Lab., University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

    Ru-Shan Wu

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Scattering and Attenuations of Seismic Waves, Part I

  • Editors: Keiiti Aki, Ru-Shan Wu

  • Series Title: Pageoph Topical Volumes

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-7722-0

  • Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Basel AG 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7643-2254-0Published: 01 November 1988

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-0348-7722-0Published: 18 December 2013

  • Series ISSN: 2504-3625

  • Series E-ISSN: 2504-3633

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 447

  • Number of Illustrations: 139 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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