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Joint inversion of receiver function and surface-wave phase velocity for estimation of shear-wave velocity of sedimentary layers  

Kurose, Takeshi (Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Yamanaka, Hiroaki (CRC Solutions Corp.)
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Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration / v.9, no.1, 2006 , pp. 93-101 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study, we propose a joint inversion method, using genetic algorithms, to determine the shear-wave velocity structure of deep sedimentary layers from receiver functions and surface-wave phase velocity. Numerical experiments with synthetic data indicate that the proposed method can avoid the trade-off between shear-wave velocity and thickness that arises when inverting the receiver function only, and the uncertainty in deep structure from surface-wave phase velocity inversion alone. We apply the method to receiver functions obtained from earthquake records with epicentral distances of about 100 km, and Rayleigh-wave phase velocities obtained from a microtremor array survey in the Kanto Plain, Japan. The estimated subsurface structure is in good agreement with the previous results of seismic refraction surveys and deep borehole data.
Keywords
receiver function; surface wave; phase velocity; microtremor array survey; joint inversion; sedimentary layer; genetic algorithms;
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