VALIDITY OF RAY THEORY APPROXIMATIONS FOR THE COMPUTATION OF TELESEISMIC SV WAVES.

Abstract

Teleseismic SV waves have been generally ignored in wave propagation and source studies because of known complications in wave propagation for structure near the source and near the receiver. The validity of common optic ray and WKBJ seismogram methods for computing SV synthetic seismograms is examined by computing synthetic seismograms using these techniques and comparing them to SV synthetics produced from a wavenumber integration technique. Both ray methods give a poor approximation to the wave propagation for distances less than 60 degree . Diffracted Sp and the SPL wave interfere with near-source phases, such as S, pS, and sS for a shallow seismic source, producing anomalously high amplitudes and complex waveforms in agreement with observational experience.

Publication Title

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

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