TY - JOUR
T1 - A New Earthquake Location Method Based on the Waveform Inversion
AU - Hao Wu, Jing Chen, Xueyuan Huang & Dinghui Yang
JO - Communications in Computational Physics
VL - 1
SP - 118
EP - 141
PY - 2018
DA - 2018/01
SN - 23
DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.OA-2016-0203
UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/cicp/10522.html
KW - Computational seismology, inverse theory, waveform inversion, earthquake location.
AB - <p style="text-align: justify;">In this paper, a new earthquake location method based on the waveform
inversion is proposed. As is known to all, the waveform misfit function under the L<sup>2&nbsp;</sup>measure is suffering from the cycle skipping problem. This leads to a very small convergence
domain of the conventional waveform based earthquake location methods.
In present study, by introducing and solving two simple sub-optimization problems,
we greatly expand the convergence domain of the waveform based earthquake location
method. According to a large number of numerical experiments, the new method
expands the range of convergence by several tens of times. This allows us to locate the
earthquake accurately even from some relatively bad initial values.</p>