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An Earthquake Early Warning System for the Romanian Capital
Although earthquake early warning systems have inherently short warning times between seconds and a minute they become increasingly important as part...
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Small-Scale Mantle Plumes: Imaging and Geodynamic Aspects
Columnar, upwelling masses of hot rock in the Earth’s mantle, called mantle plumes, are spectacular features of our planet because they supply the...
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Nonlinear Seismology - The Seismology of the XXI Century
Nonlinear effects in ground motion during large earthquakes have been a long controversial issue between seismologists and geotechnical engineers....
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The Dead Sea Fault and Its Effect on Civilization
The Dead Sea fault (DSF) is the most impressive tectonic feature in the Middle East. It is a plate boundary, which transfers sea floor spreading in...
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A Combined Geophysical/Engineering Approach for the Seismic Safety of Long-Span Bridges
The spatial distribution of the resonance frequency of the sedimentary cover in the Cologne area was estimated by the horizontal-to-vertical spectral...
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Structure of the Upper Mantle Beneath Northern Eurasia Derived from Russian Deep-Seismic PNE Profiles
From 1968 until 1990, Russian scientists carried out an intensive program of deep seismic sounding across the territory of the former Soviet Union,...
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Modelling of Descending Slab Evolution Beneath the SE-Carpathians: Implications for Seismicity
Recent findings from regional seismic tomography and refraction studies and from GPS studies on vertical movements together with extremely high...
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Effects of Multi-Scale Heterogeneity
It is generally agreed that problems with multi-scale heterogeneity present the biggest challenge to computation and understanding. A few such...
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Applications of the Correlation Length
The correlation length is the system–dependent parameter, which defines the structure of the dominant current–carrying (electric or fluid) paths....
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Pressure Saturation Curves and the Critical Volume Fraction for Percolation
The pressure-saturation curves of porous media give fundamental information about the pore space. In equilibrium, ignoring effects due to hysteresis,...
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True Amplitudes: A Challenge in Reflection Seismology
Kirchhoff migration is a well-known process in the world of seismic exploration to transform seismic reflection data into an interpretable image of...
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Imaging of Orebodies with Vertical Seismic Profiling Data
Geophysical exploration for volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposits, a major source for lead, copper, zinc and other metals, is conventionally...
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Finite-Difference Simulations of the 1927 Jericho Earthquake
Four possible scenarios of the 1927 Jericho earthquake are tested by simulating 75 seconds of 1.5 Hz-wave propagation in a 3D model of the Dead Sea...
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Monitoring of Slab Detachment in the Carpathians
Detachment of descending oceanic lithosphere (slab) is considered to be an important geodynamic process returning lithospheric material into the...
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Velocity Field of the Aegean-Anatolian Region from 3D Finite Element Models
In order to investigate the geodynamic processes and rheological parameters, which are principally responsible for the observed surface deformation,...
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Specific Examples of Critical Path Analysis
At the end of Chap. 1 the general technique of critical path analysis was introduced. This technique will actually form the basis of most of the...
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Basic Constitutive Relations for Unsaturated Media
The following sections describe how to find the hydraulic conductivity, air permeability, electrical conductivity, as well as solute and gas...
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Percolation Theory
Percolation describes properties related to the connectivity of large numbers of objects which individually have some spatial extent, and for which...
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Applications of the Cluster Statistics
This chapter presents a conceptually straightforward treatment of spatial correlations of “random” heterogeneous media, but does not intend to...