Attenuation characteristics of Hachijojima volcano from twofold spectral ratio method using dense seismic observation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Utako Watanabe ◽  
Hiroyuki Azuma ◽  
Yoshiya Oda
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marius Kriegerowski ◽  
Simone Cesca ◽  
Matthias Ohrnberger ◽  
Torsten Dahm ◽  
Frank Krüger

Abstract. We develop an amplitude spectral ratio method for event couples from clustered earthquakes to estimate seismic wave attenuation (Q−1) in the source volume. The method allows to study attenuation within the source region of earthquake swarms or aftershocks at depth, independent of wave path and attenuation between source region and surface station. We exploit the high frequency slope of phase spectra using multitaper spectral estimates. The method is tested using simulated full wavefield seismograms affected by recorded noise and finite source rupture. The synthetic tests verify the approach and show that solutions are independent of focal mechanisms, but also show that seismic noise may broaden the scatter of results. We apply the event couple spectral ratio method to North-West Bohemia, Czech Republic, a region characterized by the persistent occurrence of earthquake swarms in a confined source region at mid-crustal depth. Our method indicates a strong anomaly of high attenuation in the source region of the swarm with an averaged attenuation factor of Qp 


2019 ◽  
Vol 260 ◽  
pp. 105223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Baoqing Tian ◽  
Yanan Du ◽  
Zhiwei You ◽  
Ruohan Zhang

2006 ◽  
Vol 43 (11) ◽  
pp. 1180-1194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Hsing Wang ◽  
Wai Man Yan ◽  
Kai Fung Lo

In this paper, bender elements are used as sensors to measure the damping ratio of soil by the spectral-ratio method. The results of numerical and physical experiments suggest that adequate measurement precision can be achieved by reducing the two types of inherent biases arising from (i) the near-field effect and (ii) the different transfer functions of the two receiver bender elements. The first bias can be avoided by setting sensors to r1/λ ≥ 2.0 and r1/r2 ≥ 2.0, where r1 and r2 are the distances between the source and the first and second receivers, respectively; and λ is the wavelength. The second bias can be minimized by modifying the original spectral-ratio method to accommodate the self-healing technique. The damping ratios, measured by this modified method, obtained from the experiment conducted in a tailor-made, true-triaxial apparatus are very similar to those obtained from resonant column tests under the same state of stress.Key words: bender element, damping ratio, spectral-ratio method, near-field effect, true-triaxial apparatus.


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