Probabilistic inversion of Rayleigh-wave dispersion data: an application to Mt. Etna, Italy

Journal of Seismology - Tập 17 - Trang 335-346 - 2012
Léna Cauchie1, Gilberto Saccorotti2,3
1School of Geological Sciences, University College of Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland
2Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Pisa, Italy
3Fondazione Prato Ricerche via Galcianese, Prato, Italy

Tóm tắt

We present a methodology for determining the elastic properties of the shallow crust from inversion of surface wave dispersion characteristics through a fully nonlinear procedure. Using volcanic tremor data recorded by a small-aperture seismic array on Mount Etna, we measured the surface waves dispersion curves with the multiple signal classification technique. The large number of measurements allows the determination of an a priori probability density function without the need of making any assumption about the uncertainties on the observations. Using this information, we successively conducted the inversion of phase velocities using a probabilistic approach. Using a wave-number integration method, we calculated the predicted dispersion function for thousands of 1-D models through a systematic grid search investigation of shear-wave velocities in individual layers. We joined this set of theoretical dispersion curves to the experimental probability density function (PDF), thus obtaining the desired structural model in terms of an a posteriori PDF of model parameters. This process allowed the representation of the objective function, showing the non-uniqueness of the solutions and providing a quantitative view of the uncertainties associated with the estimation of each parameter. We then compared the solution with the surface wave group velocities derived from diffuse noise Green’s functions calculated at pairs of widely spaced (~5–10 km) stations. In their gross features, results from the two different approaches are comparable, and are in turn consistent with the models presented in several earlier studies.

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