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A rapid and accurate method for two-point ray tracing in horizontally layered velocity model is presented in this paper. Numerical experiments show that this method provides stable and rapid convergence with high accuracies, regardless of various 1-D velocity structures, takeoff angles and epicentral distances. This two-point ray tracing method is compared with the pseudobending technique and the method advanced by Kim and Baag (2002). It turns out that the method in this paper is much more efficient and accurate than the pseudobending technique, but is only applicable to 1-D velocity model. Kim’s method is equivalent to ours for cases without large takeoff angles, but it fails to work when the takeoff angle is close to 90°. On the other hand, the method presented in this paper is applicable to cases with any takeoff angles with rapid and accurate convergence. Therefore, this method is a good choice for two-point ray tracing problems in horizontally layered velocity model and is efficient enough to be applied to a wide range of seismic problems.
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Foundation item: National Natural Science Foundation of China (40074008 and 40134010).
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Yue, T., Xiao-fei, C. A rapid and accurate two-point ray tracing method in horizontally layered velocity model. Acta Seimol. Sin. 18, 154–161 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11589-005-0062-4
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11589-005-0062-4