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

Date

Authors

Tkalčić, Hrvoje

Flanagan, Megan P.

Cormier, Vernon F.

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

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;

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/30476

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Geophysical Research Letters

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1029/2005GL024626

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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