Possible large near-trench slip during the 2011 Mw 9.0 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake

T Lay, CJ Ammon, H Kanamori, L Xue, MJ Kim - Earth, planets and space, 2011 - Springer
Abstract The 11 March 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku (M w 9.0) Earthquake ruptured a
200 km wide megathrust fault, with average displacements of~ 15–20 m. Early estimates of …

Inferring upper-mantle structure by full waveform tomography with the spectral element method

V Lekić, B Romanowicz - Geophysical Journal International, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Mapping the elastic and anelastic structure of the Earth's mantle is crucial for understanding
the temperature, composition and dynamics of our planet. In the past quarter century, global …

SCARDEC: a new technique for the rapid determination of seismic moment magnitude, focal mechanism and source time functions for large earthquakes using body …

M Vallée, J Charléty, AMG Ferreira… - Geophysical Journal …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Accurate and fast magnitude determination for large, shallow earthquakes is of key
importance for post-seismic response and tsumami alert purposes. When no local real-time …

Deformation of crust and upper mantle in central Tibet caused by the northward subduction and slab tearing of the Indian lithosphere: New evidence based on shear …

C Wu, X Tian, T Xu, X Liang, Y Chen, M Taylor… - Earth and Planetary …, 2019 - Elsevier
Shear-wave splitting provides insight into geodynamic processes such as lithospheric
deformation and upper mantle flow. This study presents shear wave splitting parameters …

Constraints on the cryohydrological warming of firn and ice in Greenland from Rayleigh wave ellipticity data

GA Jones, AMG Ferreira, B Kulessa… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Rayleigh wave ellipticity measurements from seismic ambient noise recorded on the
Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) show complex and anomalous behavior at wave periods …

Amplification and attenuation across USArray using ambient noise wavefront tracking

DC Bowden, VC Tsai, FC Lin - Journal of Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
As seismic traveltime tomography continues to be refined using data from the vast USArray
data set, it is advantageous to also exploit the amplitude information carried by seismic …

Bayesian Seismic Source Inversion With a 3‐D Earth Model of the Japanese Islands

S Simutė, C Boehm, L Krischer… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We present probabilistic centroid‐moment tensor solutions inferred from the combination of
Hamiltonian Monte Carlo sampling and a 3‐D full‐waveform inversion Earth model of the …

The thermal structure of cratonic lithosphere from global Rayleigh wave attenuation

CA Dalton, X Bao, Z Ma - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2017 - Elsevier
The resolution of and level of agreement between different attenuation models have
historically been limited by complexities associated with extracting attenuation from seismic …

Constraining S-wave velocity using Rayleigh wave ellipticity from polarization analysis of seismic noise

A Berbellini, M Schimmel, AMG Ferreira… - Geophysical Journal …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We develop a new method for measuring ellipticity of Rayleigh waves from ambient noise
records by degree-of-polarization (DOP) analysis. The new method, named DOP-E, shows a …

Uppermost crustal structure regulates the flow of the Greenland Ice Sheet

GA Jones, AMG Ferreira, B Kulessa… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The flow of the Greenland Ice Sheet is controlled by subglacial processes and conditions
that depend on the geological provenance and temperature of the crust beneath it, neither of …