Obesrvation of near-podal P'P' precursors: Evidence for back scattering from the 150-220 km zone in the Earth's upper mantle

Date

2006

Authors

Tkalčić, Hrvoje
Flanagan, Megan P.
Cormier, Vernon F.

Journal Title

Journal ISSN

Volume Title

Publisher

American Geophysical Union

Abstract

P′P′ (PKPPKP) are P waves that travel from a hypocenter through the Earth's core, reflect from the free surface and travel back through the core to a recording station on the surface. Here we report the observations of hitherto unobserved near-podal P

Description

Keywords

Keywords: Attenuation quality factor; Back-scattered energy; Earth's upper mantle; Lithosphere; Near-podal precursors; P waves; Attenuation; Backscattering; Earth (planet); Rayleigh scattering; Seismic waves; Geophysics; earthquake epicenter; earthquake hypocenter;

Citation

Source

Geophysical Research Letters

Type

Journal article

Book Title

Entity type

Access Statement

License Rights

Restricted until

2037-12-31