Seismic Motion, Lithospheric Structures, Earthquake and Volcanic Sources: The Keiiti Aki Volume

by Yehuda Ben-Zion (Editor)

Overview

Geophysicists use seismic signals to image structures in the Earth's interior, to understand the mechanics of earthquake and volcanic sources, and to estimate their associated hazards. Keiiti Aki developed pioneering quantitative methods for extracting useful information from various portions of observed seismograms and applied these methods to many problems in the above fields. This volume honors Aki's contributions with review papers and results from recent applications by his former students and scientific associates pertaining to topics spawned by his work. Discussed subjects include analytical and numerical techniques for calculating dynamic rupture and radiated seismic waves, shastic models used in engineering seismology, earthquake and volcanic source processes, seismic tomography, properties of lithospheric structures, analysis of scattered waves, and more. The volume will be useful to students and professional geophysicists alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783764370114
Publisher:	Birkh�user Basel
Publication date:	04/10/2003
Series:	Pageoph Topical Volumes
Edition description:	2003
Pages:	369
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

A Review of the Discrete Wavenumber Method.- An Efficient Numerical Method for Computing Synthetic Seismograms for a Layered Half-space with Sources and Receivers at Close or Same Depths.- Calculation of Synthetic Seismograms with Gaussian Beams.- Wave Propagation, Scattering and Imaging Using Dual-domain One-way and One-return Propagators.- 541 Coda.- Radiation from a Finite Reverse Fault in a Half Space.- Spontaneous Complex Earthquake Rupture Propagation.- The Barrier Model and Strong Ground Motion.- Simulation of Ground Motion Using the Shastic Method.- Characterization of Fault Zones.- Seismic Tomography of the Lithosphere with Body Waves.- 739 Volcano Seismology.- Seismic Detection and Characterization of the Altiplano-Puna Magma Body, Central Andes.