S23C:
Imaging the Earth III Passive and Active Source Studies of the Crust Posters

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Andreas Fichtner, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland and Paula Koelemeijer, University of Cambridge, Bullard Laboratories, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Primary Conveners:  Monica Maceira, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Co-conveners:  Andreas Fichtner, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, 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 Liaisons:  Carene S Larmat, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
A Seismic Structure Study in the Kaoping Area, Southwestern Taiwan
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, 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
Laure Schenini1, Marie-Odile Beslier1, Francoise Sage1, Rabia Badji2, Pierre-Yves Galibert3, Angélique Leprêtre4, Jean-Xavier Dessa1, Aidi Chafik5 and Louise Watremez6, (1)GeoAzur, Valbonne, France, (2)Sonatrach Divsion Exploration, Boumerdes, Algeria, (3)University Pierre and Marie Curie Paris VI - UMR METIS, Paris, France, (4)IUEM Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer, Plouzané, France, (5)CRAAG, Algiers, Algeria, (6)Université du Maine, Le Mans, France
 
Lateral Variations of Coda Wave Attenuation in the Alps
Ludovic Margerin1, Jessie Mayor1, Marie Calvet1 and Paola Traversa2, (1)IRAP - Universite de Toulouse, Toulouse, France, (2)EDF-Electricité de France, CEIDRE-TEGG, Aix-en-Provence, France
 
Adjoint Tomography of Taiwan Region: From Travel-Time Toward Waveform Inversion
Hsin-Hua Huang, Institute of Earth Sciences Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Shiann-Jong Lee, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan and Jeroen Tromp, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
 
USArray Regional Phase Analysis
Janine S Buehler and Peter M Shearer, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
Simultaneous Characterization of Crustal and Sedimentary Layers Using Receiver Functions
Jianguo Song, Youqiang Yu, Kelly Hong Liu and Stephen S Gao, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, United States
 
New insights on the crustal thickness and its lateral variations beneath the Rif Cordillera
Alba Gil de la Iglesia1, Jordi Diaz Cusi1, Josep Gallart1, Ramon Carbonell1, Mimoun Harnafi2 and Alan Levander3, (1)ICTJA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain, (2)Institut Scienfique, Université V-Agdal, Rabat, Morocco, (3)Rice University, Earth Science Department, Houston, TX, United States
 
Estimation of Crustal Thickness in Nepal Himalayas Using Local and Regional Earthquake Data
Sagarika Mukhopadhyay1, Ivan Koulakov2, Gulzhamal Maksotova2, Javed Raoof3, Jnana Kayal4, Andrey Jakovlev2 and Alexandre Vasilevsky2, (1)Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India, (2)IPGG SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia, (3)Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, ROORKEE, India, (4)Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, India
 
Stress-Release Seismic Source for Seismic Velocity Measurement in Mines
Peter L Swanson1, Curtis Clark1, Jerry Richardson1, Lewis Martin1, Eric Zahl1 and Art Etter2, (1)NIOSH/CDC, Spokane, WA, United States, (2)Bowie Resources, Paonia, CO, United States
 
Teleseismic Tomography of the Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone
Olorunfemi Temitope Olasanmi1, Pierre Arroucau2 and Gordana Vlahovic1, (1)North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC, United States, (2)Instituto Dom Luiz, Centro de Geofisica da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
 
Test of Sparse Stations Layout for Determining Dispersion Characteristics
Danuta Garus, University of Silesia, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Katowice, Poland
 
3D P-Wave Velocity Structure of the Crust and Relocation of Earthquakes in 21 the Lushan Source Area
Xiangwei Yu, Xiaona Wang and Wenbo Zhang, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
 
3-D Velocity Model of the Coachella Valley, Southern California Based on Explosive Shots from the Salton Seismic Imaging Project
Patricia Persaud1,2, Joann M Stock1, Gary S Fuis3, John A Hole4, Mark Goldman3 and Daniel S Scheirer3, (1)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)California State Polytechnic University Pomona, Pomona, CA, United States, (3)US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (4)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States
 
Why Do Two Very Close Stations in Central Japan Have Different Receiver Functions?
Katsuhiko Shiomi, NIED National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Tsukuba, Japan
 
Local-Scale Ambient Noise Tomography In and Around the Naruko Volcano, NE Japan
Jun Tamura and Tomomi Okada, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
 
Systematic receiver function analysis of the Moho geometry in the southern California plate-boundary region
Yaman Ozakin and Yehuda Ben-Zion, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
The Study on S-Wave Velocity Structure of Upper Crust in Three Gorges Region of Yangtze River
Xiaoyong Li, China University of Geosciences Wuhan, Wuhan, China, Peimin Zhu, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China and Qiang Zhou, Chengdu University of Technology, The Engineering & Technology College, Chengdu, China
 
3-D P WAVE VELOCITY STRUCTURE OF MARMARA REGION USING LOCAL EARTHQUAKE TOMOGRAPHY
Sezim ezgi Işık and Cemil Gurbuz, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
 
Crustal Structure across The Southwest Longmenshan Fault Zone from Seismic Controlled Source Seismic Data
Xiaofeng Tian, Fuyun Wang and Baofeng Liu, Geophysical Exploration Center, China Earthquake Administration, Zhengzhou, China
 
Moho Depth and Crustal Vp/Vs Variation in Marmara Region Obtained by Receiver Functions
Pinar Buyukakpinar1, Cemil Gurbuz1 and Ekrem Zor2, (1)Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, (2)TUBITAK Marmara Res. Center, Kocaeli, Turkey
 
High-resolution investigation of the crustal structure of the Sicilian region (southern Italy) by local earthquake tomography
Cristina Totaro1, Ekaterina Kukarina2, Ivan Koulakov2, Barbara Orecchio1, Debora Presti1 and Giancarlo Neri1, (1)University of Messina, Messina, Italy, (2)IPGG SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
 
High-resolution ambient noise adjoint tomography of the crust and upper mantle beneath the eastern margin of the Tibetan plateau
Guangchi Xing1, Fenglin Niu1,2, Min Chen1 and Yingjie Yang3, (1)Rice University, Houston, TX, United States, (2)China University of Petroleum, State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resource and Prospecting, and Unconventional Natural Gas Institute, Beijing, China, (3)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.
Mohit Agrawal1, Jay Pulliam1, Mrinal K Sen2 and Harold Gurrola3, (1)Baylor University, Waco, TX, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (3)Texas Tech University, Geosciences, Lubbock, TX, United States
 
Mapping Lateral Variations of Crustal Structure across China with Pds Receiver Function Data
Chenhao Yang1 and Fenglin Niu1,2, (1)Rice University, Earth Science Department, Houston, TX, United States, (2)China University of Petroleum, State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resource and Prospecting, and Unconventional Natural Gas Institute, Beijing, China
 
Crustal Structure and Deformation beneath the NE Margin of the Tibetan Plateau Revealed by Receiver Function Data
Qiong Wang1,2, Fenglin Niu2,3, Yuan Gao4 and Yun-Tai Chen1, (1)Institute of Geophysics, China Eathquake Administration, Beijing, China, (2)Rice University, Houston, TX, United States, (3)China University of Petroleum, State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resource and Prospecting, and Unconventional Natural Gas Institute, Beijing, China, (4)IES Institute of Earthquake Science, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China
 
The Study of Crustal Heterogeneity in Ma River Fault Zone, Vietnam : An Application in Receiver Function
Chien 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)Natl Chung Cheng Univ, Chiayi, Taiwan
 
Investigating the Crust and Upper Mantle of Antarctica based on S-Wave Receiver Functions Deployed in Ice Stations
Cristo Ramirez1, Andrew Nyblade2, Samantha E Hansen3, David Heeszel4, Doulgas A Wiens5, Sridhar Anandakrishnan1, Richard C Aster6, Audrey D Huerta7, Patrick Shore5 and Terry J Wilson8, (1)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (2)Penn St Univ, University Park, PA, United States, (3)University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, (4)Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC, United States, (5)Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, (6)Colorado State University, Geosciences Department, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (7)Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA, United States, (8)Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States
 
A 3-D crustal model for SW of Iberia
Elisa Buforn1, Tamara Abajo1, Maurizio Mattesini1 and Juan Cantavella2, (1)Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, (2)Instituto Geográfico Nacional, Madrid, Geofísica, Madrid, Spain
 
Broadband Seismic Study of the Dominican Republic
Jay Pulliam1, Eugenio Polanco Rivera2, Rafael Pujols Guridy2, Victor A Huerfano Moreno3 and Alberto M Lopez3, (1)Baylor University, Waco, TX, United States, (2)Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, Instituto Sismológico Universitario, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, (3)University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Mayaguez, PR, United States
 
Preliminary Results of Full Seismic Waveform Tomography for Sea of Marmara Region (NW Turkey)
YEşIM ÇUBUK"1, Andreas Fichtner2 and Tuncay Taymaz1, (1)Istanbul Technical University, the Faculty of Mines, Department of Geophysical Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey, (2)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
 
Imaging the Western Iberia Crustal Structure by Noise Analysis
Graça M Silveira1, Nuno A Dias1, Susana Custodio2, Sergey Kiselev3 and Süleyman Dündar4, (1)ISEL/IDL, Lisbon, Portugal, (2)Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, (3)Institute of Physics of the Earth, Moscow, Russia, (4)formerly at Instituto Dom Luiz, Lisbon, formerly at, Lisbon, Portugal
 
Major crustal and Moho discontinuities in the Japanese Islands identified from receiver function imaging
Toshihiro Igarashi and Takashi Iidaka, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan
 
Imaging the Isabella Anomaly in Southern California: Surface Wave Tomography, Receiver Function Analysis, and Basin Analysis
Charles R. Hoots1, Brandon Schmandt1, Robert W Clayton2, Sara L Dougherty2 and Steve M Hansen1, (1)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
3D Basement Structure in Southeastern New Mexico from Normally Discarded Portions of ContinuouslyRecorded Oil Exploration Surveys
Anastasija Cabolova, Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States and Larry D Brown, Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY, United States
 
Automatic data processing and crustal modeling on Brazilian Seismograph Network
Cristiano Chimpliganond1, Lucas P Moreira2, Marcelo Peres Rocha1, George Franca3, Giuliano Sant'Anna Marotta1 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, Asa Norte, Brazil
 
A receiver function study of crustal properties in the Lesser Antilles Arc
Mariano Simón Arnaiz-Rodríguez, Central University of Venezuela, Maracaibo, Venezuela, Fenglin Niu, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States and Michael Schmitz, La Fundación Venezolana de Investigaciones Sismológicas, Caracas, Venezuela
 
Crustal structure of Yunxian-Ninglang, northwestern Yunnan, China from wide-angle seismic reflection
Siwen Chen1, Baoshan Wang1, Xiaofeng Tian2, Fuyun Wang2, Baofeng Liu2 and LU LI1, (1)IGP Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China, (2)Geophysical Exploration Center, China Earthquake Administration, Zhengzhou, China
 
Imaging of gas hydrate bearing marine sediments by full waveform inversion of multichannel seismic data from Krishna-Godavari basin, India
Maheswar Ojha1, Mrinal K Sen2 and Kalachand Sain1, (1)National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
 
Crust and Upper Mantle Velocity Structure beneath NE China from Joint Inversion of Local and Teleseismic Data
Jinli Huang1, Zhikun Liu1 and Feng Yang2, (1)School of Geophysics and Information Technology, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China, (2)Institute of Earthquake Science, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China
 
Regional Characterization of Tokyo Metoropolitan area using a highly-dense seismic netwok(MeSO-net)
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)Earthquake Research Institute, Yayoi, Bunkyo, 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)
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)Ocean College, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
 
Imaging and 2.5D Modeling of Receiver Functions from Deep Virtual Receivers in Kyushu Island, Japan
Hiroshi Takenaka, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan, Takuya Ueda, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, Takumi Murakoshi, National Defense Academy of Japan, Yokosuka, Japan and Taro Okamoto, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
 
Imaging the Fine-Scale Structure of the San Andreas Fault in the Northern Gabilan Range with Explosion and Earthquake Sources
Hailiang Xin1,2, Clifford H Thurber1, Haijiang Zhang3 and Fuyun Wang2, (1)Univ Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (2)Geophysical Exploration Center, China Earthquake Administration, Zhengzhou, China, (3)University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
 
Seismic Structure beneath the Gulf of California: a Contribution from Group Velocity Measurements
Francesca Di Luccio1, Patricia Persaud2 and Robert W Clayton2, (1)National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy, (2)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
3D P and S Wave Velocity Structure and Tremor Locations in the Parkfield Region
Xiangfang Zeng, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, Clifford H Thurber, Univ Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States, David R Shelly, California Geological Survey Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States, Ninfa L Bennington, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States, Elizabeth S Cochran, US Geological Survey, Pasadena, CA, United States and Rebecca M Harrington, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
 
Wide Aperture Imaging Strategies for 3D Elastic Full-waveform Inversion: Application to the Marmousi model
Petr Petrov, LBNL, Berkeley, CA, United States and Gregory A Newman, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Full-3D Tomography of the Crustal Structure in Southern California Using Earthquake Seismograms and Ambient-Noise Correlagrams
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, Laramie, WY, United States, (3)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, IGPP, La Jolla, CA, United States, (5)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
 
Poisson ratio map of Brazil: Data compilation
George Franca1, Marcelo Bianchi2, Cesar Pavão1, Lucas P Moreira3, Diogo Farrapo Albuquerque1, Marcelo Peres Rocha1 and Giuliano Sant'Anna Marotta1, (1)UNB University of Brasilia, Asa Norte, Brazil, (2)USP University of Sao Paulo, Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences, São Paulo, Brazil, (3)Catholic University of Brasilia, Civil Engineering Department, Brasilia, Brazil
 
Rayleigh Wave Group Velocity Distributions for East Asia from Ambient Seismic Noise Tomography
Michael Witek1, Suzan van der Lee1, Tae-Seob Kang2, Sung-Joon Chang3, Shuoxian Ning1 and Jieyuan Ning4, (1)Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States, (2)Pukyong National University, Busan, South Korea, (3)Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, South Korea, (4)Peking University, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China
 
Local Earthquake Tomography in Tjörnes Fracture Zone (North Iceland)
Claudia Abril Lopez, Ari Tryggvason and Olafur Gudmundsson, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
 
A discussion about the causes of the intraplate seismicity in the Central Brazil from P-wave travel-time tomography results
Marcelo Peres Rocha1, Paulo Araujo de Azevedo1, Martin Schimmel2, Reinhardt A Fuck1 and George Franca1, (1)UNB University of Brasilia, Asa Norte, Brazil, (2)ICTJA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
 
Seismic assessment of a temporary deployment in the Kingdom of Bhutan using double-­difference tomography 
Chanel A Perez1, Aaron A Velasco1, Ellen M Syracuse2, Monica Maceira2 and Haijiang Zhang3, (1)University of Texas at El Paso, Geological Sciences, El Paso, TX, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
 
Receiver Function Imaging of Crustal and Lithospheric Structure Beneath the Jalisco Block and Western Michoacan, Mexico.
Gabriel Reyes Alfaro1, Victor M Cruz-Atienza1, Xyoli Perez-Campos2 and Gabriel Angel Reyes Dávila3, (1)Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, (2)UNAM National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, (3)University of Colima, Colima, Mexico
 
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