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Reflection seismic imaging usually suffers from a loss of resolution and contrast because of the fluctuations of the wave velocities in the Earth's crust. In the literature, phase distortion issues are generally circumvented by means of a…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-05-13 Rita Touma , Thibaud Blondel , Arnaud Derode , Michel Campillo , Alexandre Aubry

Marine seismic exploration is a core technology supporting marine resource exploration, seabed detection, carbon sequestration monitoring, and offshore engineering safety. The integration of full-waveform inversion (FWI), elastic inversion,…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-05-05 Guoxin Chen

The inverse problem in Seismology is tackled in this paper under three particular circumstances. First, the inverse problem is defined as the determination of the seismic-moment tensor from the far-field seismic waves (P and S waves). We…

Geophysics · Physics 2018-08-10 Bogdan Felix Apostol

In seismic waveform inversion, the reconstruction of the subsurface properties is usually carried out using approximative wave propagation models to ensure computational efficiency. The viscoelastic nature of the subsurface is often…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 Kenneth Muhumuza , Lassi Roininen , Janne M. J. Huttunen , Timo Lähivaara

The Multiscale Fourier Transform of a seismic trace performs time-frequency analyses over a range of window lengths. The variation in window length captures local and global relative amplitudes between events, thereby allowing reflectivity…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-06-16 John Castagna , Oleg Portniaguine , Gabriel Gil , Arnold Oyem , Chen Liang

Searches for gravitational wave signals which do not have a precise model describing the shape of their waveforms are often performed using power detectors based on a quadratic form of the data. A new, optimal method of generalizing these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Julien Sylvestre

Seismic inversion plays a very useful role in detailed stratigraphic interpretation of seismic data. Seismic inversion enables estimation of rock properties over the complete seismic section. Traditional and machine learning-based seismic…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-04-08 Ahmad Mustafa , Motaz Alfarraj , Ghassan AlRegib

Foreshock events provide valuable insight to predict imminent major earthquakes. However, it is difficult to identify them in real time. In this paper, I propose an algorithm based on deep learning to instantaneously classify a seismic…

Geophysics · Physics 2016-11-29 K. Vikraman

The method of waveforms cross correlation (WCC) is used to detect signals from aftershocks of the August 14, 2016 earthquake within Sakhalin Island, which had local magnitude ML = 6.1. Arrivals of regular P- and S-waves detected by the WCC…

Geophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Ivan Kitov

This paper is devoted to theoretical and numerical investigation of the local minimum issue in seismic full waveform inversion (FWI). This paper provides a mathematical analysis of optimal transportation (OT) type objective function's…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-01 Lingyun Qiu

Teleseismic, or distant, earthquakes regularly disrupt the operation of ground--based gravitational wave detectors such as Advanced LIGO. Here, we present \emph{EQ mode}, a new global control scheme, consisting of an automated sequence of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-02 Eyal Schwartz , A Pele , J Warner , B Lantz , J Betzwieser , K L Dooley , S Biscans , M Coughlin , N Mukund , R Abbott , C Adams , R X Adhikari , A Ananyeva , S Appert , K Arai , J S Areeda , Y Asali , S M Aston , C Austin , A M Baer , M Ball , S W Ballmer , S Banagiri , D Barker , L Barsotti , J Bartlett , B K Berger , D Bhattacharjee , G Billingsley , C D Blair , R M Blair , N Bode , P Booker , R Bork , A Bramley , A F Brooks , D D Brown , A Buikema , C Cahillane , K C Cannon , X Chen , A A Ciobanu , F Clara , S J Cooper , K R Corley , S T Countryman , P B Covas , D C Coyne , L E H Datrier , D Davis , C Di Fronzo , J C Driggers , P Dupej , S E Dwyer , A Effler , T Etze , M Evans , T M Evans , J Feicht , A Fernandez-Galiana , P Fritschel , V V Frolov , P Fulda , M Fyffe , J A Giaime , K D Giardina , P Godwin , E Goetz , S Gras , C Gray , R Gray , A C Green , Anchal Gupta , E K Gustafson , R Gustafson , J Hanks , J Hanson , T Hardwick , R K Hasskew , M C Heintze , A F Helmling-Cornell , N A Holland , J D Jones , S Kandhasamy , S Karki , M Kasprzack , K Kawabe , N Kijbunchoo , P J King , J S Kissel , Rahul Kumar , M Landry , B B Lane , M Laxen , Y K Lecoeuche , J Leviton , J Liu , M Lormand , A P Lundgren , R Macas , M MacInnis , D M Macleod , G L Mansell , S M arka , Z M arka , D V Martynov , K Mason , T J Massinger , F Matichard , N Mavalvala1 , R McCarthy , D E McClelland , S McCormick , L McCuller , J McIver , T McRae , G Mendell , K Merfeld , E L Merilh , F Meylahn , T Mistry , R Mittleman , G Moreno , C M Mow-Lowry , S Mozzon , A Mullavey , T J N Nelson , P Nguyen , L K Nuttall , J Oberling , Richard J Oram , C Osthelder , D J Ottaway , H Overmier , J R Palamos , W Parker , E Payne , C J Perez , M Pirello , H Radkins , K E Ramirez , J W Richardson , K Riles , N A Robertson , J G Rollins , C L Romel , J H Romie1 , M P Ross , K Ryan , T Sadecki , E J Sanchez , L E Sanchez , T R Saravanan , R L Savage , D Schaetzl , R Schnabel , R M S Schofield , D Sellers , T Shaffer , D Sigg , B J J Slagmolen , J R Smith , S Soni , B Sorazu , A P Spencer , K A Strain , L Sun , M J Szczepanczyk , M Thomas , P Thomas , K A Thorne , K Toland , C I Torrie , G Traylor , M Tse , A L Urban , G Vajente , G Valdes , D C Vander-Hyde , P J Veitch , K Venkateswara , G Venugopalan , A D Viets , T Vo , C Vorvick , M Wade , R L Ward , B Weaver , R Weiss , C Whittle , B Willke , C C Wipf , L Xiao , H Yamamoto , Hang Yu , Haocun Yu , L Zhang , M E Zucker , J Zweizig

This paper investigates the nonlinear dynamics of stepping flexible frames under seismic excitation. The conventional iterative method of solution of peak quasi-dynamic displacement of stepping frames is not guaranteed to converge. To…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-05-13 Arzhang Alimoradi , James L. Beck

Computational modeling of faulting processes is an essential tool for understanding earthquake mechanics but remains challenging due to the structural and material complexities of fault zones. The phase-field method has recently enabled…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-03-11 Fan Fei , Md Shumon Mia , Ahmed E. Elbanna , Jinhyun Choo

The inference of flows of material in the interior of the Sun is a subject of major interest in helioseismology. Here we apply techniques of Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) to synthetic data to test flow inversions. In this idealized setup,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Shravan M Hanasoge

Producing reliable acoustic subsurface velocity models still remains the main bottleneck of the oil and gas industry's traditional imaging sequence. In complex geological settings, the output of conventional ray-based or wave-equation-based…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-06-07 Guillaume Barnier , Ettore Biondi , Robert G. Clapp , Biondo Biondi

Electromagnetic wave manipulation plays a crucial role in advancing technology across various domains, including photonic device design. This study presents an inverse design approach for a periodic medium that optimizes electromagnetic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Ziling Chen , Fadil Santosa

We consider seismic imaging to include seismic inversion. Imaging could use approximate operator or time instead of depth. Processing in time is an important part of seismic imaging as well as processing in depth. We can classify seismic…

Geophysics · Physics 2017-06-19 August Lau , Chuan Yin

We introduce a method for identifying weak periodic components in pre-earthquake seismic waveforms by examining the scale-index response of a driven Duffing chaotic oscillator. This nonlinear setup helps detect and classify subtle…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-31 Nazmi Yılmaz

We present a novel approach for resolving modes of rupture directivity in large populations of earthquakes. A seismic spectral decomposition technique is used to first produce relative measurements of radiated energy for earthquakes in a…

Recent applications of machine learning algorithms in the seismic domain have shown great potential in different areas such as seismic inversion and interpretation. However, such algorithms rarely enforce geophysical constraints - the lack…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-08-22 Motaz Alfarraj , Ghassan AlRegib