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Authors: | Del Pezzo, Edoardo* Giampiccolo, Elisabetta* Tuvè, Tiziana* Di Grazia, Giuseppe* Gresta, Stefano* Ibanez, Jesús M.* |
Title: | Study of the regional pattern of intrinsic and scattering seismic attenuation in Eastern Sicily (Italy) from local earthquakes | Journal: | Geophysical Journal International | Series/Report no.: | /218 (2019) | Issue Date: | 2019 | DOI: | 10.1093/gji/ggz208 | Keywords: | Fourier analysis Earthquake hazards Seismic attenuation Wave scattering and diffraction. |
Subject Classification: | 04.06. Seismology | Abstract: | The mechanism of seismic attenuation for shear waves was studied through the separate measure of the intrinsic dissipation and scattering coefficients. A modified version of the Multiple Lapse TimeWindowAnalysis (MLTWA) was applied to about 5000 local earthquakes with magnitude 1.5 ≤ Ml ≤ 4.8 occurred in the period 2006–2017 in both the tectonic (Peloritani Mountains and Hyblean Plateau) and volcanic (Aeolian Islands and Mt Etna) areas of eastern Sicily. Observed data, processed via direct Fourier Transform instead of the filtering and averaging procedures utilized in the ordinary MLTWA technique, were fit to the correspondent Paasschens solution of the Energy Transport model in 3D. Model parameters B0, the seismic albedo, and Le, the extinction length, in turn associated with the intrinsic (Qi) and scattering (Qs) quality factors for S waves, are thus obtained from the fit in the frequency bands centred at 1.5, 3, 6 and 12 Hz. Finally, the corrections to these estimates in case of an opaque layer (the crust) overlying a uniform and transparent mantle, were applied in order to obtain more realistic estimates of the seismic attenuation in the areas investigated. Obtained results are first interpreted in terms of the characteristics of each domain and then compared by the same point of view with a huge set of measurements of the same parameters carried out in other tectonic and volcanic domains through the world. Results show how the rock heterogeneity characterizes the tectonic domain and determines the value of total attenuation coefficient, which, on the other hand, is a crucial parameter in the estimation of the seismic hazard. | Description: | This article has been accepted for publication in Geophysical Journal International ©: The Authors 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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