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Quality factor inversion determination from the analysis of body wave data

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In this investigation, a method is developed which allows the determination of the distribution of the intrinsic attenuation with depth in the earth's mantle using single body wave observations. Focal mechanism, geometrical spreading and the source function are not involved in the proposed method. Several examples are presented obeying different laws of the quality factor decreasing or increasing with depth. A case is shown where a first order discontinuity is present, and also when the hypocenter varies with depth.

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  1. Geophysical Institute, Faculty of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    R. Sato

  2. U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Geophysics Research Group, Washington Science Center, Rockville, Maryland

    A. F. Espinosa

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Sato, R., Espinosa, A.F. Quality factor inversion determination from the analysis of body wave data. PAGEOPH 67, 15–26 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00880557

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