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Ambient seismic noise Rayleigh wave tomography for the Pannonian basin

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We studied the Rayleigh wave group velocities beneath Hungary using ambient seismic noise tomography. Noise data were gathered from 17 broadband seismological stations in and around the Pannonian basin. The cross-correlation method was used to calculate the Green’s functions. Group velocities belonging to the fundamental mode Rayleigh waves were determined by multiple filter technique. We measured the dispersion curves for each station pair in a period range of 7–28 s and computed maps of group velocity distribution using a 2D tomography method. The group velocity maps of 7–14 s periods correlate well with sedimentary thickness and regional geology. Velocity anomalies observed at longer periods reflect the effect of the crustal and mantle structural features.

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Acknowledgements

The authors are indebted to Professor Tatiana B. Yanovskaya of the University of St. Petersburg, Russia for providing the tomographic inversion program and to Robert B. Herrmann for making freely available his software package called “Computer programs in seismology”.

We are very grateful for allowing us to use seismic data and for the instrument parameters to the following people and institutions: Mladen Živčić at the Slovenian Environment Agency; Helmut Hausmann at the Abteilung für Geophysik—Seismologie at Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik; Constantin Ionescu at the Romanian seismological observatory; Jana Pazdírková at Institute of Physics of the Earth, Masaryk University Brno and Krisztián Csicsay at Department of Seismology, Geophysical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences.

This study was supported by the TAMOP-4.2.2.C–11/1/KONV-2012-0015 (Earth-system) project sponsored by the EU and European Social Foundation and the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund under Grant OTKA K105399.

All figures were generated with the Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) data processing and display software package (Wessel and Smith 1991, 1998).

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Szanyi, G., Gráczer, Z. & Győri, E. Ambient seismic noise Rayleigh wave tomography for the Pannonian basin. Acta Geod Geophys 48, 209–220 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40328-013-0019-3

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