TY  - JOUR
A1  - Donner, Stefanie
A1  - Krüger, Frank
A1  - Roessler, Dirk
A1  - Ghods, Abdolreza
T1  - Combined Inversion of broadband and short-period waveform data for regional moment tensors: A case study in the Alborz Mountains, Iran
JF  - Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
N2  - In this study, we suggest a novel approach for the retrieval of regional moment tensors for earthquakes with small to moderate magnitudes. The first modification is the combined inversion of broadband and short-period waveform data. The broadband waveforms are inverted in a frequency range suitable for surface waves, whereas for the short-period data a frequency range suitable for body waves is applied. The second modification is the use of first-motion body-wave polarities to select the most probable solution out of all solutions from inversion. To combine three different criteria for selecting the most probable solution (i.e., residual from inversion, double-couple content of solution, number of nonmatching first-motion body-wave polarities), the L2 norm is applied to the normalized parameters. We chose five earthquakes within the Alborz mountains, Iran, as a case study (3.1 <= M-w <= 4.1). In this area, several factors exacerbate the difficulty of performing inversion for moment tensors, for example, a heterogeneous station network and large azimuthal gaps. We have demonstrated that our approach supplies reliable moment tensors when inversion from broadband data alone fails. In one case, we successfully retrieved a stable solution from short-period waveform data alone. Thus, our approach enables successful determination of seismic moment tensors wherever a sparse network of broadband stations has thus far prevented it.
Y1  - 2014
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1785/0120130229
SN  - 0037-1106
SN  - 1943-3573
VL  - 104
IS  - 3
SP  - 1358
EP  - 1373
PB  - Seismological Society of America
CY  - Albany
ER  -