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Understanding the velocity structure in the Earth’s interior is one of the fundamental aspects of seismology research. Robust and realistic velocity models ensure the accuracy and reliability of the strong ground motion estimations, which leads to effective seismic hazard assessments. In order to investigate the structural features in the Earth, we analyze the phase and amplitude details of seismic waveforms from active sources or natural earthquakes. This dissertation involves two distinct approaches to probing the Earth’s velocity structures: by means of ray-theory and full-wave methods to model the first-arrival times from explosion experiments and the splitting intensities of shear waves from earthquakes, respectively.
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Lin, YP. (2018). Introduction. In: Isotropic and Anisotropic Seismic Tomography Using Active Source and Earthquake Records. Springer Theses. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5068-8_1
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