A unified methodology for seismic waveform analysis and inversion (original) (raw)

Abstract

A central problem of seismology is the inversion of regional waveform data for models of earthquake sources and earth structure. In regions such as Southern California, preliminary 3D earth models are already available, and efficient numerical methods have been developed for solving the point-source forward problem. We describe a unified inversion procedure that utilizes these capabilities to improve 3D earth models and derive centroid moment tensor (CMT) or finite moment tensor (FMT) representations of earthquake ruptures. Our data are time- and frequency-localized measurements of the phase and amplitude anomalies relative to synthetic seismograms computed from reference seismic source and structure models. Our analysis on these phase and amplitude measurements shows that these preliminary 3D models provide substantially better fit to observed data than either laterally homogeneous or path-averaged 1D structure models that are commonly used in previous seismic studies for Southern ...

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