Source Effects on Regional Seismic Discriminant Measurements…区域地震判别测量的源效应.pdfVIP

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol. 92, No. 8, pp. 2926–2945, December 2002 Source Effects on Regional Seismic Discriminant Measurements by Jiajun Zhang, Thorne Lay, Julia Zaslow, and William R. Walter Abstract Source effects on high-frequency regional seismic discriminant mea- surements involving P/S-type ratios (Pn/Lg, Pg/Lg) are isolated for earthquakes in southern California and southern Nevada. The scatter in earthquake population dis- criminant measurements for fixed propagation paths is statistically analyzed to assess the spatial and frequency-dependent contributions from source radiation pattern and source depth variations along with variable near-source scattering. This is useful because procedures for reducing the variance caused by propagation effects must be constrained by knowledge of the intrinsic scatter resulting from independent source effects, for which corrections are not available without a priori knowledge of the source type and depth. Broadband waveforms for earthquakes near the Nevada Test Site (NTS) and in southern California recorded at stations of the Livermore NTS Network (LNN), the Caltech TERRAscope Network, and the Berkeley Digital Seismic Network (BDSN) are used to obtain Pg/Lg and Pn/Lg measurements and to assess source depth and mechanism contributions to measurement variance. Pn/Lg and Pg/ Lg spectral amplitude ratios for several frequency bands between 0.5 and 10 Hz from vertical velocity waveforms are computed for a total of 18 tightly located clusters of earthquakes. For each cluster, we examine the correlations between observed Pn/Lg