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Natural and Anthropogenic Sources of Seismic, Hydroacoustic, and Infrasonic Waves: Waveforms and Spectral Characteristics (and Their Applicability for Sensor Calibration)
The record of seismic, hydroacoustic, and infrasonic waves is essential to detect, identify, and localize sources of both natural and anthropogenic...
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Seismology and Earthquakes
The chapter provides a large overview on seismology. The earthquake genesis, waves propagation and attenuation relationships are discussed. From the...
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An Improved Approach for Nonstationary Strong Ground Motion Simulation
A new stochastic ground motion model for generating a suite of ground motion time history with both temporal and frequency nonstationarities for...
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Mass determination of moment magnitudes Mw and establishing the relationship between Mw and M L for moderate and small Kamchatka earthquakes
The average relationship is established between the basic magnitude for the Kamchatka regional catalog, M L , and modern moment magnitude M w . The...
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Post-sunset rise of equatorial F layer—or upwelling growth?
According to the so-called upwelling paradigm, development of equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs) involves (1) appearance of an upwelling (i.e., local...
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Impacts of Realistic Urban Heating, Part I: Spatial Variability of Mean Flow, Turbulent Exchange and Pollutant Dispersion
As urbanization progresses, more realistic methods are required to analyze the urban microclimate. However, given the complexity and computational...
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Shear wave attenuation estimated from the spectral decay rate in the vicinity of the Petropavlovsk station, Kamchatka
The parameters of S -wave attenuation (the total effect of absorption and scattering) near the Petropavlovsk (PET) station in Kamchatka were estimated...
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Life-cycle based design of mass dampers for the Chilean region and its application for the evaluation of the effectiveness of tuned liquid dampers with floating roof
The assessment of the effectiveness of mass dampers for the Chilean region within a multi-objective decision framework utilizing life-cycle...
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Rupture process by waveform inversion using simulated annealing and simulation of broadband ground motions
A source inversion method using very fast simulated annealing is proposed to estimate the earthquake rupture process, and associated radiation of...
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Extraction of forward-directivity velocity pulses using S-Transform-based signal decomposition technique
Robust methods for time-frequency analysis of time series, which provide local information of signals, allow earthquake engineers to study both the...
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Broadband Kinematic Stochastic Simulation of an Earthquake Source: a Refined Procedure for Application in Seismic Hazard Studies
To carry out a realistic simulation of earthquake strong ground motion for applied studies, one needs an earthquake fault/source simulator that can...
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Application of seismo-acoustic signals to the study of local site effects
The Nevada Seismic Array (NVAR) is a small-aperture seismic array designed for monitoring an eventual nuclear test ban treaty. In spite of the 4 km...
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The goals, achievements, and tools of modern geodesy
Friedrich Robert Helmert (1843-1917) defined geodesy as the science “of measurements and map**s of the Earth’s surface”. Over time, this definition...
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Microearthquake Recording and Data Analysis
Since 1980s the Geological Survey of India (GSI) has taken a lead in microearthquake investigation for detailed seismotectonics and active fault...
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Earthquake accelerogram simulation with statistical law of evolutionary power spectrum
By using the technique for evolutionary power spectrum proposed by Nakayama and with reference to the Kameda formula, an evolutionary spectrum...
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The Western Bohemia uppermost crust shear wave velocities from Love wave dispersion
We present a detailed study of Western Bohemia Love waves generated by blasts with an intention to estimate the uppermost crust structure for a more...
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Attenuation and Velocity Structure for Site Response Analyses via Downhole Seismogram Inversion
A seismic waveform inversion algorithm is proposed for the estimation of elastic soil properties using low amplitude, downhole array recordings....