Local crustal structures of southern Korea from joint analysis of waveforms and travel times

摘要

A joint inversion technique of waveforms and travel times is applied to broadband seismic data from a local earthquake in order to estimate local crustal velocity structures of southern Korea. Combining the waveform and travel time inversion techniques, we can surmount the demerits of the techniques: the distortion of deep velocity structure in the waveform inversion caused by low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), the velocity-depth trade-off, and errors in picking phases in the travel time inversion. The purpose of this study is not only for verifying whether the technique is performed well in the local areas where the number of stations is limited, but also for estimating the velocity structures of the areas that have been little investigated. We adopted the genetic algorithm (GA) as a search algorithm, since we could not expect appropriate initial models due to little a priori information about crustal velocity structure. Both broadband waveforms bandpassed between 0.05 Hz and 0.3 Hz and travel times of Pg, Pn, and PmP waves from the 26 April 2004 Daegu earthquake (ML=3.9) were used as input data. We performed the joint inversion ten times or more for each local area, and adopted the averaged model of optimal models to acquire credible crustal structure. Synthetic waveforms and travel time curves obtained from the estimated velocity models were generally agreed with observed seismograms, and the estimated source depths from the velocity models of the three local areas are similar to and consistent with each other. Therefore, we believe that the joint inversion technique is still applicable to local areas where the number of stations is limited.