Seismic tomography: a window into deep Earth

N Rawlinson, S Pozgay, S Fishwick - Physics of the Earth and Planetary …, 2010 - Elsevier
The goal of this paper is to provide an overview of the current state of the art in seismic
tomography, and trace its origins from pioneering work in the early 1970s to its present …

Seismic tomography and the assessment of uncertainty

N Rawlinson, A Fichtner, M Sambridge… - Advances in …, 2014 - Elsevier
Seismic tomography is a powerful tool for illuminating Earth structure across a range of
scales, but the usefulness of any image that is generated by this method is dependent on …

The community velocity model V. 1.0 of southwest China, constructed from joint body‐and surface‐wave travel‐time tomography

Y Liu, H Yao, H Zhang, H Fang - … Society of America, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Southwest China, located at the southeastern margin of the Tibetan plateau, plays an
important role for the plateau growth and its material extrusion. It has complicated tectonic …

Noninvasive fracture characterization based on the classification of sonic wave travel times

S Misra, H Li, J He - Machine learning for subsurface …, 2020 - books.google.com
Mechanical discontinuity in the material is generally referred as crack or fracture. Predicting
and monitoring the geometry, distribution, and condition of mechanical discontinuities are …

Eikonet: Solving the eikonal equation with deep neural networks

JD Smith, K Azizzadenesheli… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The recent deep learning revolution has created enormous opportunities for accelerating
compute capabilities in the context of physics-based simulations. In this article, we propose …

Direct inversion of surface wave dispersion for three-dimensional shallow crustal structure based on ray tracing: methodology and application

H Fang, H Yao, H Zhang, YC Huang… - Geophysical Journal …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We propose a method to invert surface wave dispersion data directly for 3-D variations of
shear wave speed, that is, without the intermediate step of phase or group velocity maps …

Seismic tomography with the reversible jump algorithm

T Bodin, M Sambridge - Geophysical Journal International, 2009 - academic.oup.com
The reversible jump algorithm is a statistical method for Bayesian inference with a variable
number of unknowns. Here, we apply this method to the seismic tomography problem. The …

[PDF][PDF] Earthquake location, direct, global-search methods

A Lomax, A Michelini, A Curtis… - … of complexity and …, 2009 - geos.ed.ac.uk
Most commonly, an earthquake location is determined using observed seismic-phase arrival-
times and associated uncertainties, and predicted travel times in a given wavespeed model …

The high-resolution community velocity model V2. 0 of southwest China, constructed by joint body and surface wave tomography of data recorded at temporary dense …

Y Liu, Z Yu, Z Zhang, H Yao, W Wang, H Zhang… - Science China Earth …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Sichuan-Yunnan area is located at the southeastern margin of the Tibetan
Plateau, where tectonic movement is strong with deep and large faults distributed in a …

The fast marching method: an effective tool for tomographic imaging and tracking multiple phases in complex layered media

N Rawlinson, M Sambridge - Exploration Geophysics, 2005 - CSIRO Publishing
The accurate prediction of seismic traveltimes is required in many areas of seismology,
including the processing of seismic reflection profiles, earthquake location, and seismic …