Chairs: Andreas Fichtner, ETH Zurich, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland and Carene S Larmat, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Primary Convener: Monica Maceira, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Co-conveners: Andreas Fichtner, ETH Zurich, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland, Paula Koelemeijer, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland and Carene S Larmat, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
OSPA Liaison: Carene S Larmat, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
A Seismic Structure Study in the Kaoping Area, Southwestern Taiwan (2281)
Kuei-Pao Chen1, Chien-Ying Wang2, Yi-Ben Tsai2 and Wen-Yen Chang3, (1)Hsin Sheng Junior College of Medical Care and Management, Longtan Township, Taiwan, (2)NCU National Central University of Taiwan, Jhongli, Taiwan, (3)National Dong Hwa University, Eastern Taiwan Earthquake Research Center, Hualien County, Taiwan
Tectonic Inversion Along the Algerian and Ligurian Margins: On the Insight Provided By Latest Seismic Processing Techniques Applied to Recent and Vintage 2D Offshore Multichannel Seismic Data (5748)
Laure Schenini1, Marie-Odile Beslier2, Francoise Sage2, Rabia Badji3, Pierre-Yves Galibert4, Angélique Lepretre5, Jean-Xavier Dessa6, Chafik Aidi7 and Louise Watremez8, (1)Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, IRD, Géoazur, Valbonne, France, (2)GeoAzur, Valbonne, France, (3)Sonatrach Divsion Exploration, Boumerdes, Algeria, (4)University Pierre and Marie Curie Paris VI - UMR METIS, Paris, France, (5)IUEM Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer, Plouzané, France, (6)Géoazur - UPMC, Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, IRD, Géoazur, Valbonne, France, (7)CRAAG, Algiers, Algeria, (8)Université du Maine, Le Mans, France
Lateral Variations of Coda Wave Attenuation in the Alps (6746)
Ludovic Margerin1, Jessie Mayor1, Marie Calvet2 and Paola Traversa3, (1)IRAP - Universite de Toulouse, Toulouse, France, (2)Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, CNRS, Toulouse, France, (3)EDF-Electricité de France, CEIDRE-TEGG, Aix-en-Provence, France
Adjoint Tomography of Taiwan Region: From Travel-Time Toward Waveform Inversion (7207)
Hsin-Hua Huang, Academia Sinica, Institute of Earth Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan, Shiann-Jong Lee, NCU National Central University of Taiwan, Jhongli, Taiwan and Jeroen Tromp, Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States
New insights on the crustal thickness and its lateral variations beneath the Rif Cordillera (8510)
Alba Gil de la Iglesia1, Jordi Diaz1, Josep Gallart2, Ramon Carbonell1, Mimoun Harnafi3 and Alan Levander4, (1)ICTJA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain, (2)Geosciences Barcelona, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain, (3)University Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco, (4)Rice University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Houston, United States
Estimation of Crustal Thickness in Nepal Himalayas Using Local and Regional Earthquake Data (8543)
Sagarika Mukhopadhyay1, Ivan Koulakov2, Gulzhamal Maksotova2, Javed Raoof3, J R Kayal4, Andrey Jakovlev5 and Alexandre Vasilevsky2, (1)Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Department of Earth Sciences, Roorkee, India, (2)IPGG SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia, (3)Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India, (4)Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, India, (5)Trofimuk Institute of Petrolium Geology and Geophysics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
Teleseismic Tomography of the Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone (8762)
Olorunfemi Temitope Olasanmi, North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC, United States, Pierre Arroucau, Instituto Dom Luiz, Centro de Geofisica da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal and Gordana Vlahovic, North Carolina Central University, Department of Environmental, Earth and Geospatial Sciences, Durham, United States
3-D Velocity Model of the Coachella Valley, Southern California Based on Explosive Shots from the Salton Seismic Imaging Project (14256)
Patricia Persaud1,2, Joann M Stock3, Gary S Fuis4, John A Hole5, Mark Goldman6 and Daniel S Scheirer4, (1)University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)California State Polytechnic University Pomona, Pomona, CA, United States, (3)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (5)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Center for Advanced Subsurface Earth Resource Models, Department of Geosciences, Blacksburg, United States, (6)USGS, Earthquake Science Center, Moffett Field, United States
High-resolution ambient noise adjoint tomography of the crust and upper mantle beneath the eastern margin of the Tibetan plateau (21678)
Guangchi Xing1, Fenglin Niu2,3, Min Chen1 and Yingjie Yang4, (1)Rice University, Houston, TX, United States, (2)University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Anhui, China, (3)China University of Petroleum, State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resources and Prospecting, and Unconventional Natural Gas Institute, Beijing, China, (4)Macquarie University, ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems and GEMOC, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Crustal and Uppermost Mantle Structure of Texas-Gulf of Mexico from Surface Wave Dispersion and Migrated Ps Receiver Functions. (14457)
Mohit Agrawal, Baylor University, Waco, TX, United States, Jay Pulliam, Baylor University, Department of Geosciences, Waco, United States, Mrinal K Sen, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States and Harold Gurrola, Texas Tech University, Geosciences, Lubbock, TX, United States
Mapping Lateral Variations of Crustal Structure across China with Pds Receiver Function Data (22849)
Chenhao Yang, Rice University, Earth Science Department, Houston, TX, United States and Fenglin Niu, China University of Petroleum, State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resources and Prospecting, and Unconventional Natural Gas Institute, Beijing, China; University of Science and Technology of China, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Hefei, China
Crustal Structure and Deformation beneath the NE Margin of the Tibetan Plateau Revealed by Receiver Function Data (14859)
Qiong Wang, Institute of Earthquake Science, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China; Rice University, Houston, TX, United States, Fenglin Niu, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Anhui, China; China University of Petroleum, State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resources and Prospecting, and Unconventional Natural Gas Institute, Beijing, China, Yuan Gao, United Laboratory of High-Pressure Physics and Earthquake Science, Institute of Earthquake Forecasting, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China and Yun-Tai Chen, Institute of Geophysics, China Eathquake Administration, Beijing, China
The Study of Crustal Heterogeneity in Ma River Fault Zone, Vietnam : An Application in Receiver Function (23388)
Chien Min Ming Su1, Strong Wen2, Chi-Chia Tang3, Yu-Lien Yeh4, Dinh Van Toan5, Lai Hop Phong5 and Chauhuei Chen6, (1)CCU National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi County, Taiwan, (2)NCREE National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering of Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan, (3)Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, (4)Graduate Institute of Seismology National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi County, Taiwan, (5)Institute of Geological Sciences, Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam, (6)National Chung Cheng University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chiayi County, Taiwan
Investigating the Crust and Upper Mantle of Antarctica based on S-Wave Receiver Functions Deployed in Ice Stations (23419)
Cristo Ramirez1, Andrew Nyblade2, Samantha Elizabeth Hansen3, David Heeszel4, Douglas Wiens5, Sridhar Anandakrishnan6, Richard C Aster7, Audrey D Huerta8, Patrick Shore5 and Terry J Wilson9, (1)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, United States, (2)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences, University Park, United States, (3)The University of Alabama, Geological Sciences, Tuscaloosa, United States, (4)Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC, United States, (5)Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, (6)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences and Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, United States, (7)Colorado State University, Geosciences Department, Fort Collins, United States, (8)Central Washington University, Dept. of Geological Sciences, Ellensburg, United States, (9)Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States
A 3-D crustal model for SW of Iberia (15180)
Elisa Buforn1, Tamara Abajo1, Prof. Maurizio Mattesini, PhD2 and Juan Cantavella3, (1)Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, (2)Complutense University of Madrid, Department of Earth's Physics and Astrophysics, Madrid, Spain, (3)Instituto Geográfico Nacional, Madrid, Geofísica, Madrid, Spain
Broadband Seismic Study of the Dominican Republic (25961)
Jay Pulliam1, Eugenio Polanco Rivera2, Rafael Pujols Guridy2, Victor A Huerfano Moreno3 and Alberto M M Lopez Venegas3, (1)Baylor University, Department of Geosciences, Waco, United States, (2)Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, Instituto Sismológico Universitario, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, (3)University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Puerto Rico Seismic Network, Mayaguez, PR, United States
Imaging the Western Iberia Crustal Structure by Noise Analysis (15918)
Graça M Silveira, Instituto Dom Luiz (FCUL)/Inst. Sup. Engenharia de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, Nuno A Dias, ISEL/IDL, Lisbon, Portugal, Susana Custodio, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, Sergei Kiselev, Institute of Physics of the Earth, Moscow, Russia and Süleyman Dündar, formerly at Instituto Dom Luiz, Lisbon, formerly at, Lisbon, Portugal
Imaging the Isabella Anomaly in Southern California: Surface Wave Tomography, Receiver Function Analysis, and Basin Analysis (16370)
Charles R. Hoots1, Brandon Schmandt2, Robert W Clayton3, Sara L Dougherty3 and Steven M Hansen1, (1)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)University of New Mexico, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Albuquerque, United States, (3)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Automatic data processing and crustal modeling on Brazilian Seismograph Network (30752)
Cristiano Chimpliganond1, Lucas P Moreira2, Marcelo Peres Rocha1, George Sand Franca3, Giuliano Sant'Anna Marotta4 and Mônica Giannoccaro Von Huelsen1, (1)OBSIS Seismological Observatory of the University of Brasília, Brasilia, Brazil, (2)Catholic University of Brasilia, Civil Engineering Department, Brasilia, Brazil, (3)UNB University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil, (4)University of Brasília, Seismological Observatory / Geosciences Institute, Brasília, Brazil
Crust and Upper Mantle Velocity Structure beneath NE China from Joint Inversion of Local and Teleseismic Data (20971)
Jinli Huang, School of Geophysics and Information Technology, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China, Zhikun Liu, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), School of Geophysics and Information Technology, Beijing, China and Feng Yang, Institute of Earthquake Science, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China
Regional Characterization of Tokyo Metoropolitan area using a highly-dense seismic netwok(MeSO-net) (21039)
Naoshi Hirata1, Shigeki Nakagawa2, Shin'ichi Sakai1, Yannis Panayotopoulos1, Masahiro Ishikawa3, Takeo Ishibe4, Hisanori Kimura5 and Ryou Honda6, (1)Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (2)University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, (3)Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan, (4)Association for the Development of Earthquake Prediction, Tokyo, Japan, (5)NIED National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Tsukuba, Japan, (6)Hot Springs Research Inst., Kanagawa, Japan
Simultaneous Determination of Average Thickness and P-wave Speed of the Crust by Virtual Deep Seismic Sounding (VDSS) (21914)
Dou Kang1, Chunquan Yu2, Jieyuan Ning1, Kai TAO3 and Wang-Ping Chen4, (1)School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China, (2)Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resource and Prospecting, and Unconventional Natural Gas Institute, China University of Petroleum at Beijing, Beijing, China, (4)Now at Ocean College, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Imaging the Fine-Scale Structure of the San Andreas Fault in the Northern Gabilan Range with Explosion and Earthquake Sources (24230)
Hailiang Xin1,2, Clifford H Thurber3, Haijiang Zhang4 and Fuyun Wang2, (1)Univ Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (2)Geophysical Exploration Center, China Earthquake Administration, Zhengzhou, China, (3)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Geoscience, Madison, WI, United States, (4)University of Science and Technology of China, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Hefei, China
Seismic Structure beneath the Gulf of California: a Contribution from Group Velocity Measurements (24255)
Francesca Di Luccio, (INGV) National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Roma1, Roma, Italy, Patricia Persaud, University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States and Robert W Clayton, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
3D P and S Wave Velocity Structure and Tremor Locations in the Parkfield Region (26871)
Xiangfang Zeng, Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Geodesy and Earth’s dynamics, Wuhan, WI, China, Clifford H Thurber, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Geoscience, Madison, WI, United States, David R Shelly, U.S. Geological Survey, Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, United States, Ninfa Bennington, U.S. Geological Survey, Hilo, United States, Elizabeth S Cochran, U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Science Center, Pasadena, United States and Rebecca M Harrington, Ruhr University Bochum, Institute of Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics, Bochum, Germany
Full-3D Tomography of the Crustal Structure in Southern California Using Earthquake Seismograms and Ambient-Noise Correlagrams (27139)
En-Jui Lee1, Po Chen2, Thomas H Jordan1,3, Philip J Maechling1, Marine Denolle4 and Gregory C Beroza5, (1)Southern California Earthquake Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of Wyoming, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Laramie, WY, United States, (3)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States, (4)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, United States, (5)Stanford University, Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States
Poisson ratio map of Brazil: Data compilation (29031)
George Sand Franca, UNB University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil, Marcelo Bianchi, USP University of Sao Paulo, Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences, São Paulo, Brazil, Cesar Pavão, UNB University of Brasilia, Asa Norte, Brazil, Lucas P Moreira, Catholic University of Brasilia, Civil Engineering Department, Brasilia, Brazil, Diogo Farrapo Albuquerque, UNB University of Brasilia, Sesimological Observatory, Asa Norte, Brazil, Marcelo Peres Rocha, OBSIS Seismological Observatory of the University of Brasília, Brasilia, Brazil and Giuliano Sant'Anna Marotta, University of Brasilia, Seismological Observatory, Brasília, Brazil
Rayleigh Wave Group Velocity Distributions for East Asia from Ambient Seismic Noise Tomography (29866)
Michael Witek, Northwestern University, Evanston, United States, Suzan van der Lee, Northwestern University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Evanston, IL, United States, Tae-Seob Kang, Pukyong National University, Division of Earth Environmental System Science, Busan, South Korea, Sung-Joon Chang, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, South Korea, Shuoxian Ning, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States and Jieyuan Ning, Peking University, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China
A discussion about the causes of the intraplate seismicity in the Central Brazil from P-wave travel-time tomography results (30191)
Marcelo Peres Rocha, OBSIS Seismological Observatory of the University of Brasília, Brasilia, Brazil, Paulo Araujo de Azevedo, Federal University of Western Pará, Santarém, Brazil, Martin Schimmel, Geosciences Barcelona, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain, Reinhardt A Fuck, UNB University of Brasilia, Asa Norte, Brazil and George Sand Franca, UNB University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil
Seismic assessment of a temporary deployment in the Kingdom of Bhutan using double-difference tomography (31292)
Chanel A Deane, University of Texas at El Paso, Geological Sciences, El Paso, TX, United States, Aaron A Velasco, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States, Ellen M Syracuse, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Monica Maceira, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Haijiang Zhang, University of Science and Technology of China, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Hefei, China