Tomographic imaging of three-dimensional P-wave velocity structure beneath the Pannonian Basin

Bus, Z. (2001) Tomographic imaging of three-dimensional P-wave velocity structure beneath the Pannonian Basin. Acta Geodaetica et Geophysica Hungarica, 36 (2). pp. 189-206. ISSN 1217-8977

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Abstract

Tomographic P-wave velocity inversion has been performed for the Pannonian region using first arrival times of local and regional events from the bulletins of the International Seismological Center and the Hungarian Earthquake Bulletins. The input data consist of 4071 arrival times of 570 events. A three-dimensional velocity model has been gained by joint hypocenter-velocity inversion on a coarse and a fine non-uniform cartesian grid of nodes. The initial one-dimensional model was determined by genetic algorithm. A bending ray tracer has been used to calculate the theoretical travel times and ray paths. The reliability of the inverted velocity parameters were checked by the checkerboard method and by the analysis of the model resolution matrix. The results are generally in agreement with the known structural characteristics of the Pannonian Basin. An interesting high-velocity anomaly has been found in the uppermost mantle beneath the southern part of the Great Hungarian Plain.

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