scholarly journals Seismic Waves in a horizontally layered half-space with a general point source

Author(s):  
Hiroshi Takenaka ◽  
Tsutomu Sasatani ◽  
the 210 MM MAGNETIC OBSERVATION GROUP
1997 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruichong Zhang ◽  
Liyang Zhang ◽  
Masanobu Shinozuka

Seismic waves in a layered half-space with lateral inhomogeneities, generated by a buried seismic dislocation source, are investigated in these two consecutive papers. In the first paper, the problem is formulated and a corresponding approach to solve the problem is provided. Specifically, the elastic parameters in the laterally inhomogeneous layer, such as P and S wave speeds and density, are separated by the mean and the deviation parts. The mean part is constant while the deviation part, which is much smaller compared to the mean part, is a function of lateral coordinates. Using the first-order perturbation approach, it is shown that the total wave field may be obtained as a superposition of the mean wave field and the scattered wave field. The mean wave field is obtainable as a response solution for a perfectly layered half-space (without lateral inhomogeneities) subjected to a buried seismic dislocation source. The scattered wave field is obtained as a response solution for the same layered half-space as used in the mean wave field, but is subjected to the equivalent fictitious distributed body forces that mathematically replace the lateral inhomogeneities. These fictitious body forces have the same effects as the existence of lateral inhomogeneities and can be evaluated as a function of the inhomogeneity parameters and the mean wave fleld. The explicit expressions for the responses in both the mean and the scattered wave fields are derived with the aid of the integral transform approach and wave propagation analysis.


1979 ◽  
Vol 69 (6) ◽  
pp. 1693-1714
Author(s):  
F. Abramovici ◽  
J. Gal-Ezer

abstract The time-dependent solution for a multipolar source in a structure consisting of a homogeneous layer over a homogeneous half-space is obtained as a sum of generalized rays. Numerical seismograms are calculated for a horizontal strikeslip and a horizontal dip-slip for a point-source, a finite line-source, and a finite two-dimensional source in the form of a rectangle. For comparison, the displacements in a homogeneous space and half-space are also calculated. The seismograms for finite sources are similar to those for a point-source but show less conspicuous phases, the arriving pulses being wider and less sharp.


2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-206
Author(s):  
Meng Fanshun ◽  
Wang Zaishan ◽  
Li Jianjun

1974 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dushan B. Jovanovich ◽  
Mouhajed I. Husseini ◽  
Michael A. Chinnery

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