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Visualizing seismic wave propagation
Peter van Keken University of MichiganJeroen TrompDimitri Komatitsch CaltechShalini VenkataramanNicholas SchwarzLuc RenambotJason Leigh University of Illinois at Chicago
American Geophysical Union, Fall 2003, ED31E-01
Seismology in intro geophysicsUniversity of Michigan GS420
• Elastic deformation/wave equation• Refraction, reflection• 1D earth structure• Earthquakes and seismograms• Tomography• Attenuation, anisotropy
• www.geo.lsa.umich.edu/~keken/420.html
From Shearer (1999)
PcP: average P velocity in the mantle
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shadow zone
PKIKP
PKIKP: averageP velocity of the Earth
From Shearer (1999)
Ideal: Develop a good understanding of seismic wave propagation
Greatly aided by improvements in:- data acquisition
- computational power- computer visualization
Courtesy ExxonMobil
Example: active source seismics
Examples: Global seismology
• Alan Jones: Seismic Waves– Seismic phases, seismograms– www.geol.binghamton.edu/faculty/jones
• Saadia Baker and Michael Wysession– Synthetic mantle shear waves, seismograms– Normal mode summation– http://epsc.wustl.edu/~saadia
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New approach: SPECFEM3D
• Spectral finite element code (Komatitsch and Tromp, GJI, 2002;
Komatitsch, Tromp and Ritsema, Science, 298, 2002
www.geoframework.org)
• ‘Complete’ model: allows introduction of
– Ellipticity, anisotropy
– 3D mantle and crustal structure
• Massively parallel computation – Linux PC clusters at Caltech, Michigan
• Challenging code for visualization– Irregular grid
– Massive amount of data: O(Terabyte)
50s lowpass filter 14/8/95 New Britain (Mw=6.7)
Quiz: Name the phases labeled A through F (white/red indicate positive amplitude only)
P S
Vanuatu, 26/11/99
Bolivia, 9/6/94
3D = GeowallGS420 Fall 2002
EVL Volume Rendering
• Use color and transparancy
(Alternative: PC based volume renderer HVR www.lcse.umn.edu)
5123 8 bit 5123 16 bit
Quiz: Name the phases labeled A through F
SK
PP
PKP
Love
PPS
ScPP
ScSP ScSS