Routine Data Processing in Earthquake Seismology: With Sample Data, Exercises and Software

✍ Scribed by Jens Havskov, Lars Ottemoller (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 352
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The purpose of this book is to get a practical understanding of the most common processing techniques in earthquake seismology. The book deals with manual methods and computer assisted methods. Each topic will be introduced with the basic theory followed by practical examples and exercises. There are manual exercises entirely based on the printed material of the book, as well as computer exercises based on public domain software. Most exercises are computer based. The software used, as well as all test data are available from http://extras.springer.com.

This book is intended for everyone processing earthquake data, both in the observatory routine and in connection with research. Using the exercises, the book can also be used as a basis for university courses in earthquake processing.

Since the main emphasis is on processing, the theory will only be dealt with to the extent needed to understand the processing steps, however references will be given to where more extensive explanations can be found.

Includes:
• Exercises
• Test data
• Public domain software (SEISAN)
available from http://extras.springer.com

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-14
Earth Structure and Seismic Phases....Pages 15-51
Instruments and Waveform Data....Pages 53-81
Signal Processing....Pages 83-99
Location....Pages 101-149
Magnitude....Pages 151-191
Focal Mechanism and Seismogram Modeling....Pages 193-243
Spectral Analysis....Pages 245-282
Array Processing....Pages 283-297
Operation....Pages 299-326
Back Matter....Pages 327-347

✦ Subjects

Geophysics/Geodesy; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences; Signal, Image and Speech Processing; Earth Sciences, general; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences