Seismic Wave Propagation and Scattering in the Heterogeneous Earth : Second Edition

• Main Authors: Sato, Haruo (Author), Fehler, Michael C. (Author), Maeda, Takuto (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2012.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geophysics.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Engineering.; Earth Sciences.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Engineering, general.

Seismic waves - generated both by natural earthquakes and by man-made sources - have produced an enormous amount of information about the Earth's interior. In classical seismology, the Earth is modeled as a sequence of uniform horizontal layers (or spherical shells) having different elastic pro...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Heterogeneity in the Lithosphere
• Phenomenological Approaches to Seismogram Envelopes in short-periods
• Born approximation for Wave Scattering in Random Media
• Attenuation of High-Frequency Seismic Waves
• Synthesis of Three-Component Seismogram Envelopes for Earthquakes Using Scattering Amplitudes from the Born Approximation
• Envelope Synthesis Based on the Radiative Transfer Theory: Multiple Scattering Models
• Parabolic approximation and Envelope Synthesis based on the Markov Approximation. Summary and Epilogue.