MLOC References

Following are references for journal articles of particular relevance to mloc. In some cases PDFs are linked for convenience in investigating the algorithmic foundations of mloc.

Bondar, I. K., Myers, S. C., Engdahl, E. R., & Bergman, E. A. (2004). Epicentre accuracy based on seismic network criteria. Geophysical Journal International, 156, 483–496. http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2004.02070.x

Bondar, I., Bergman, E.A., Engdahl, E.R., Kohl, B., Kung, Y.-L., and McLaughlin, K.L., 2008, A hybrid multiple event location technique to obtain ground truth event locations: Geophysical Journal International, v. 175, no. 1, p. 185-201, doi: 10.1111/gji.2008.175.issue-1.

Buland, R.P., and Chapman, C.H. (1983). The computation of seismic travel times. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v, 73, no. 5, p. 1271-1302. (PDF)

Cleary, J.R., & Haddon, R.A.W. (1972). Seismic Wave Scattering near the Core-Mantle Boundary: a New Interpretation of Precursors to PKP. Nature, 240(5383), 549–551. http://doi.org/10.1038/240549a0

Croux, C., and Rousseeuw, P.J., 1992, Time-efficient algorithms for two highly robust estimators of scale: Computational Statistics, v. 1, p. 411-428. (PDF)

Dziewonski, A.M., and F.J. Gilbert, 1976. The effect of small, aspherical perturbations on travel times and a re-examination of the corrections for ellipticity. Geophysical Journal International, 44(1), p. 7-17.

Engdahl, E.R., van der Hilst, R.D., and Buland, R.P. (1998). Global teleseismic earthquake relocation with improved travel times and procedures for depth determination. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 88(3), 722-743. (PDF)

Herrin, E. (1968). Introduction to “1968 Seismological Tables for P Phases.” Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 58(4), 1193–1195.

Jordan, T.H., and Sverdrup, K.A., 1981, Teleseismic location techniques and their application to earthquake clusters in the South-Central Pacific: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 71, no. 4, p. 1105-1130. (PDF)

Karasözen, E. (2018). Seismotectonics of Turkey and Iran from calibrated earthquake relocations. PhD Thesis, Colorado School of Mines.

Mendiguren, J. A. (1971). Focal mechanism of a shock in the middle of the Nazca Plate. Journal of Geophysical Research, 76(17), 3861–3879. http://doi.org/10.1029/JB076i017p03861

Okal, E. A. (2001). T-phase Stations for the International Monitoring System of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty: A Global Perspective. Seismological Research Letters, 72(2), 186–196. http://doi.org/10.1785/gssrl.72.2.186

Press, W.H., Flannery, B.P., Teukolsky, S.A. and W.T. Vetterling (1986). Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, 818 p.

Schweitzer, J. (2001). HYPOSAT—An enhanced routine to locate seismic events. Pure and Applied Geophysics, v. 158, p. 277-289. (PDF)

Waldhauser, F. and Ellsworth, W. L. (2000). A double-difference earthquake location algorithm: Method and application to the northern Hayward fault, California. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.