scholarly journals Icequake locations and discrimination of source and path effects with small aperture arrays, Bering Glacier terminus, AK

2012 ◽  
Vol 117 (F4) ◽  
pp. n/a-n/a ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua P. Richardson ◽  
Gregory P. Waite ◽  
Wayne D. Pennington ◽  
Roger M. Turpening ◽  
James M. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Small Aperture ◽  
Glacier Terminus ◽  
Bering Glacier ◽  
Source And Path Effects ◽  
Aperture Arrays

Detection and source parameterization of small-energy fireball events in Western Alps with ground-based infrasonic arrays

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giacomo Belli ◽  
Emanuele Pace ◽  
Emanuele Marchetti
Keyword(s):  
Western Alps ◽  
Apparent Velocity ◽  
Array Analysis ◽  
Small Energy ◽  
Small Aperture ◽  
Energy Estimation ◽  
Trajectory Reconstruction ◽  
Tnt Equivalent ◽  
Back Azimuth ◽  
Aperture Arrays

Summary We present infrasound signals generated by four fireball events occurred in Western Alps between 2016 and 2019 and that were recorded by small aperture arrays at source-to receiver distances < 300 km. Signals consist in a series of short-lived infrasonic arrivals that are closely spaced in time. Each arrival is identified as a cluster of detections with constant wave parameters (back-azimuth and apparent velocity), that change however from cluster to cluster. These arrivals are likely generated by multiple infrasonic sources (fragmentations or hypersonic flow) along the entry trajectory. We developed a method, based on 2D ray-tracing and on the independent optically determined time of the event, to locate the source position of the multiple arrivals from a single infrasonic array data and to reconstruct the 3D trajectory of a meteoroid in the Earth's atmosphere. The trajectories derived from infrasound array analysis are in excellent agreement with trajectories reconstructed from eyewitnesses reports for the four fireballs. Results suggest that the trajectory reconstruction is possible for meteoroid entries located up to ∼300 km from the array, with an accuracy that depends on the source-to-receiver distance and on the signal-to-noise level. We also estimate the energy of the four fireballs using three different empirical laws, based both on period and amplitude of recorded infrasonic signals, and discuss their applicability for the energy estimation of small energy fireball events ($\le 1{\rm{kt\,\,TNT\,\,equivalent}}$).

scholarly journals The propagation of a surge front on Bering Glacier, Alaska, 2001–2011

2013 ◽  
Vol 54 (63) ◽  
pp. 221-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Turrin ◽  
Richard R. Forster ◽  
Chris Larsen ◽  
Jeanne Sauber
Keyword(s):  
Feature Tracking ◽  
Average Rate ◽  
Surface Velocity ◽  
Ablation Zone ◽  
Ice Surface ◽  
Glacier Terminus ◽  
Bering Glacier ◽  
Landsat 7 ◽  
Ice Velocity ◽  
Recent Activity

AbstractBering Glacier, Alaska, USA, has a ∼20 year surge cycle, with its most recent surge reaching the terminus in 2011. To study this most recent activity a time series of ice velocity maps was produced by applying optical feature-tracking methods to Landsat-7 ETM+ imagery spanning 2001-11. The velocity maps show a yearly increase in ice surface velocity associated with the down-glacier movement of a surge front. In 2008/09 the maximum ice surface velocity was 1.5 ±0.017 km a-1 in the mid-ablation zone, which decreased to 1.2 ±0.015 km a-1 in 2009/10 in the lower ablation zone, and then increased to nearly 4.4 ± 0.03 km a-1 in summer 2011 when the surge front reached the glacier terminus. The surge front propagated down-glacier as a kinematic wave at an average rate of 4.4 ±2.0 km a-1 between September 2002 and April 2009, then accelerated to 13.9 ± 2.0 km a-1 as it entered the piedmont lobe between April 2009 and September 2010. The wave seems to have initiated near the confluence of Bering Glacier and Bagley Ice Valley as early as 2001, and the surge was triggered in 2008 further down-glacier in the mid-ablation zone after the wave passed an ice reservoir area.

A seismic passive imaging step beyond SPAC and ReMi

Geophysics ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 78 (5) ◽  
pp. KS63-KS72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Mulargia ◽  
Silvia Castellaro
Keyword(s):  
Passive Imaging ◽  
Small Aperture ◽  
Simple Geometry ◽  
Recording Station ◽  
Refraction Microtremor ◽  
A New Technique ◽  
Statistical Mode ◽  
The One ◽  
Aperture Arrays ◽  
The Waves

The basic property of passive imaging is that, given any two points, one of them can be taken as the source of the waves and the other as the recording station. This property can be derived from the statistical self-alignment of the rays along the vector joining the two points, and applies also to nondiffuse wavefields like seismic tremor. It provides a statistical basis for the use of the stationary phase integral, allowing passive interferometry under the mild constraint of mechanical homogeneity at a local scale. Combined with the tremor’s large spectral bandwidth, it allows one to recover the local Green’s function from spatial correlation. Furthermore, combining this property also with the azimuthal isotropy of either the wavefield or the array, and using the statistical mode as the estimator, provides a new technique to measure the local velocity dispersion in the subsoil. This technique exploits the potential of spatial autocorrelation (SPAC) and refraction microtremor (ReMi), allowing one (1) to use sparse small-aperture arrays with simple geometry, (2) to dispense with the fitting of Bessel functions, and (3) to measure, in a few minutes, the local (phase and group) wave velocity as a function of frequency of potentially all the wave-propagation modes — body and surface — and not just of the one prevailing at each frequency.

Bayesian hierarchical model for variations in earthquake peak ground acceleration within small-aperture arrays

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. e2497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sahar Rahpeyma ◽  
Benedikt Halldorsson ◽  
Birgir Hrafnkelsson ◽  
Sigurjón Jónsson
Keyword(s):  
Hierarchical Model ◽  
Peak Ground Acceleration ◽  
Bayesian Hierarchical Model ◽  
Ground Acceleration ◽  
Small Aperture ◽  
Bayesian Hierarchical ◽  
Aperture Arrays

scholarly journals Joint observation of coherent coda waves at surface and underground arrays

2013 ◽  
Vol 194 (1) ◽  
pp. 367-371
Author(s):  
Mario La Rocca ◽  
Edoardo Del Pezzo ◽  
Danilo Galluzzo ◽  
Roberto Scarpa
Keyword(s):  
Amplitude Ratio ◽  
Wide Frequency Range ◽  
Body Waves ◽  
Coda Wave ◽  
Coherent Signals ◽  
Small Aperture ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Frequency Bands ◽  
Regional Seismicity ◽  
Aperture Arrays

Abstract Local and regional seismicity jointly recorded by two dense small aperture arrays, one installed at surface and one at 1.3 km depth, constitutes an interesting data set useful for coda observations. Applying array techniques to earthquakes recorded at the two arrays we measure slowness, backazimuth and correlation coefficient of the coherent coda wave signals in five frequency bands in the range 1–10 Hz. Slowness distributions show marked differences between surface and underground, with slow signals at surface (slowness greater than 1.0 s km−1) that are not observed underground. We interpret these coherent signals as surface waves produced by the interaction of body waves with the free surface characterized by rough topography. The backazimuth values measured in the frequency bands centred at 1.5 and 3 Hz are almost uniformly distributed between 0 and 360°, while those measured at higher frequencies show different distributions between surface and underground. On the contrary, the earthquake envelopes show very similar coda shapes between surface and underground recordings, with an almost constant coda-amplitude ratio (between 4 and 8) in a wide frequency range.

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