Zuern, W;
Ferreira, AMG;
Widmer-Schnidrig, R;
Lentas, K;
Rivera, L;
Clevede, E;
(2015)
High-quality lowest-frequency normal mode strain observations at the Black Forest Observatory (SW-Germany) and comparison with horizontal broad-band seismometer data and synthetics.
Geophysical Journal International
, 203
(3)
pp. 1787-1803.
10.1093/gji/ggv381.
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Abstract
We present spectra concentrating on the lowest-frequency normal modes of the Earth obtained from records of the invar-wire strainmeters and STS-1 broad-band seismometers located in the Black Forest Observatory, Germany after the disastrous earthquakes off the NW coast of Sumatra in 2004 and off the coast near Tohoku, Japan in 2011. We compare the spectra to ones obtained from synthetic seismograms computed using a mode summation technique for an anelastic, elliptical, rotating, spherically symmetric Earth model. The synthetics include strain–strain-coupling effects by using coupling coefficients obtained from comparisons between Earth tide signals recorded by the strainmeters and synthetic tidal records. We show that for the low-frequency toroidal and spheroidal modes up to 1 mHz, the strainmeters produce better signal-to-noise ratios than the broad-band horizontal seismometers. Overall, the comparison with the synthetics is satisfactory but not as good as for vertical accelerations. In particular, we demonstrate the high quality of the strainmeter data by showing the Coriolis splitting of toroidal modes for the first time in individual records, the first clear observation of the singlet 2S0/1 and the detection of the fundamental radial mode 0S0 with good signal-to-noise ratio and with a strain amplitude of 10^−11. We also identify the latter mode in a record of the Isabella strainmeter after the great Chilean quake in 1960, the detection of which was missed by the original studies.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | High-quality lowest-frequency normal mode strain observations at the Black Forest Observatory (SW-Germany) and comparison with horizontal broad-band seismometer data and synthetics |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/gji/ggv381 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggv381 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article has been accepted for publication in the Geophysical Journal International, copyright © The Authors 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. |
| Keywords: | Transient deformation, Broad-band seismometers, Surface waves and free oscillations |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Earth Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1483179 |
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