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Application of ambient noise tomography in part of South China based on self-developed seismic recorder

GUANGHUA PANG1,2 PENG XUE1,2 WEI WANG2 JUN LIN1 SHENGBAO YU1
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1 College of Instrumentation and Electrical Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130061, P.R. China.,
2 College of Electrical and Electronic engineering, Changchun University of Technology, Changchun 130021, P.R. China.,
JSE 2022, 31(4), 357–373;
Submitted: 9 June 2025 | Revised: 9 June 2025 | Accepted: 9 June 2025 | Published: 9 June 2025
© 2025 by the Authors. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract

Pang, G.H., Xue, P., Wang, W., Lin, J. and Yu, S.B., 2022. Application of ambient noise tomography in part of South China based on self-developed seismic recorder. Journal of Seismic Exploration, 31: 357-373. The broadband seismic recorder is an essential instrument for accurately determining the subsurface structure. In this paper, the velocity structure of the crust beneath the juncture area of Anhui Province, Jiangxi Province and Zhejiang Province of China was imaged using ambient seismic noise recorded by 10 broadband seismic stations equipped with self-developed three-component seismic recorder. All available three-component time series spanning the breadth of 11 months from October 2014 to August 2015 were cross-correlated to yield Empirical Green’s Functions for Rayleigh and Love waves. Group-velocity dispersion curves for the Rayleigh waves and the Love waves were measured by applying the frequency-time analysis method. Then dispersion measurements were utilized to construct 2D group-velocity maps for the Rayleigh wave at 3-20 s periods and the Love wave at 7-20 s periods, respectively. Both the Rayleigh and Love wave group-velocity maps obtained show particularly slight heterogeneity in general when compared with the average velocity. Nevertheless, there exists a same remarkable and intuitive velocity-difference boundary between high velocity and low velocity in both group-velocity maps for the Rayleigh wave at 9-13 s periods and the Love wave at 15-18 s periods, which are well in accordance with horizontal shear-wave velocity structure at depth of 14-21 km derived from known Crust 1.0.

Keywords
crust structure
ambient noise tomography
Rayleigh wave
Love wave
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