Temporal changes of surface wave velocity associated with major Sumatra earthquakes from ambient noise correlation.

ABSTRACT: Detecting temporal changes of the medium associated with major earthquakes has implications for understanding earthquake genesis. Here we report temporal changes of surface wave velocity over a large area associated with 3 major Sumatra earthquakes in 2004, 2005, and 2007. We use ambient noise correlation to retrieve empirical Green's function (EGF) of surface waves between stations. Because the process is completely repeatable, the technique is powerful in detecting possible temporal change of medium. We find that 1 excellent station pair (PSI in Indonesia and CHTO in Thailand) shows significant time shifts (up to 1.44 s) after the 2004 and 2005 events in the Rayleigh waves at 10-20 s but not in the Love waves, suggesting that the Rayleigh time shifts are not from clock error. The time sh

SUBMITTER: Xu ZJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2732845 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature