Identification of Seismic Sources — Earthquake or Underground Explosion: Proceedings of the NATO Advance Study Institute held at Voksenåsen, Oslo, Norway, September 8–18, 1980

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Seismic Source Identification: A Review of Past and Present Research Efforts....Pages 1-48
The Nature of the Earthquake Source....Pages 49-69
Dynamics of Seismic Sources....Pages 71-96
Inelastic Processes in Seismic Wave Generation by Underground Explosions....Pages 97-189
Anomalous Rayleigh Waves from Presumed Explosions in East Kazakh....Pages 191-199
P Wave Coupling of Underground Explosions in Various Geologic Media....Pages 201-205
Seismic Moment Tensors....Pages 207-232
Determination of Source Mechanism and Hypocentral Coordinates from Waveform Data....Pages 233-254
The Effect of Green’s Functions on the Determination of Source Mechanisms by the Linear Inversion of Seismograms....Pages 255-267
Simplified Bodywave Source Terms with One Application in Moment Tensor Recovery....Pages 269-272
The Interpretation of Moment Tensor Inversions....Pages 273-275
Coupling Near Source Phenomena into Surface Wave Generation....Pages 277-326
On Seismic Synthesis....Pages 327-345
Some Recent Extensions of the Reflectivity Method....Pages 347-371
Isochronal Formulation of Seismic Diffraction....Pages 373-381
High Frequency Toroidal Modes....Pages 383-390
Elastic and Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in Horizontally Layered Media....Pages 391-393
Calculation of Wave Fields in Mantle Velocity Models....Pages 395-396
The Effect of Focal Depth and Source Type on Synthetic Seismograms....Pages 397-399
Surface Wave Propagation Across Different Tectonic Regions....Pages 401-420
Lg Wave Propagation in Eurasia....Pages 421-451
Seismograms of Explosions at Regional Distances in the Western United States: Observations and Reflectivity Method Modeling....Pages 453-466
Phase Identification and Event Location at Regional Distance Using Small-Aperture Array Data....Pages 467-481
P and S-Velocity Jump at the Inner-Core Boundary from PKP Amplitudes....Pages 483-496
Conversion Phases from Mantle Transition Zones....Pages 497-504
The Excitation and Attenuation of Seismic Crustal Phases in Turkey....Pages 505-511
Comparison of Waveform Inversion Schemes for Horizontally Stratified Media....Pages 513-514
Attenuation and Scattering of Short-Period Seismic Waves in the Lithosphere....Pages 515-541
Source Location in Laterally Varying Media....Pages 543-573
Optimum Approaches to Magnitude Measurements....Pages 575-588
Three-Dimensional Seismic Velocity Image of the Upper Mantle Beneath Southeastern Europe....Pages 589-605
Tau Inversion of Upper Mantle Array Data with Application to the Problem of the Scattering of Seismic Waves in the Lithosphere....Pages 607-609
Observation of Scattering in the Lithosphere....Pages 611-612
Lateral Variations in the Earth’s Crust and Their Effect on Seismic Wave Propagation....Pages 613-614
Fundamentals of Multidimensional Time-Series Analysis....Pages 615-647
The Instantaneous Amplitude, Phase and Frequency in Seismic Event Detection, Timing and Identification....Pages 649-662
Multidimensional Discrimination Techniques—Theory and Application....Pages 663-694
Seismic Discrimination Problems at Regional Distances....Pages 695-740
Linear Discrimination for Samples of Limited Size....Pages 741-745
The Global Digital Seismograph Network: A Status Report....Pages 747-761
Broad-Band Seismometry—A Unified Approach Towards a Kinematic and Dynamic Interpretation of Seismograms....Pages 763-786
Automatic Processing Methods in the Analysis of Data from a Global Seismic Network....Pages 787-810
International Seismological Data Center. Demonstration Facilities in Sweden....Pages 811-830
Design and Development of a Seismic Data Center....Pages 831-842
Evaluation of Seismic Network Capability for Event Location....Pages 843-850
Back Matter....Pages 851-876