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Seismic Coda Waves: A Stochastic Process in Earth’s Lithosphere

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Seismic coda waves are a natural wonder. Because they are formed by scattered waves from numerous heterogeneities in the lithosphere, nature does the averaging over a large volume of the earth and leads to beautiful simplicity such as the separability of seismic source, propagation path and recording site effects. In this review, we shall focus on the decay rate of coda amplitudes, called coda Q −1, and present its significance as a geophysical parameter characterizing regional structures and earthquake processes in the lithosphere.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 28223, Charlotte, NC, USA

    Stanislav A. Molchanov

  2. Center for Stochastic and Chaotic Processes in Science and Technology, Case Western Reserve University, 44106, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Wojbor A. Woyczynski

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Aki, K. (1997). Seismic Coda Waves: A Stochastic Process in Earth’s Lithosphere. In: Molchanov, S.A., Woyczynski, W.A. (eds) Stochastic Models in Geosystems. The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, vol 85. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8500-4_1

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