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Some progresses of shear-wavesplitting in the crust

TAI Ling-xue, GAO Yuan   

  1. Institute of Earthquake Science, CEA, Beijing 100036
  • Received:2007-09-17 Revised:2007-11-12 Online:2008-04-30 Published:2021-10-29

Abstract: Seismic shear waves split when traveling through anisotropic media, and the anisotropy in the crust is mainly the result of stress-aligned fluid-saturated grain-boundary cracks. Analysis of anisotropy-induced shear wave splitting is used for studying the feature of crustal media, the condition and variation of crustal stress, and earthquake forecast as well. It is also a new attempt to study the nature of faults by means of analysis of anisotropy in crust.

Key words: Shear-wave splitting, Anisotropy, Crust, Polarization, Time-delay, Stress

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