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Determining Seismic-Wave Velocity from Travel-Time Curves

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Computational Seismology

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One of the main problems of geophysics is the determination of seismic-wave propagationvelocity from travel-time curves. The problem is as follows: let a transient deformation occur on the earth’s surface at some point A at time t = O. This produces an elastic wave, and its arrival time is observed at each point B on the surface of the earth. It is required to determine the propagation velocity of the wave from the known dependence of time upon the coordinates of the points B.

Translated from Vychislitel’naya Seismologiya. No. 3, Moscow, Nauka (1967), pp. 3–51.

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Gerver, M.L., Markushevich, V.M. (1972). Determining Seismic-Wave Velocity from Travel-Time Curves. In: Keilis-Borok, V.I., Flinn, E.A. (eds) Computational Seismology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8815-9_17

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