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Fine-scale Structure Mapped by Body Waves Extracted from Noise

by M. K. Savage 17 June 20203 November 2021

A novel processing scheme was used to extract refracted body waves from ambient seismic noise and investigate the small-scale structure around a fault at Long Beach, California.

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New Method to Measure Ice Cap Thickness

by M. K. Savage 21 November 20182 March 2022

Naturally generated seismic waves bouncing up and down through an ice sheet can be used to determine the thickness of the ice and monitor future changes in ice thickness.

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Removing the Drudgery from Earthquake Seismology

by M. K. Savage 26 July 201813 January 2022

New methods of machine learning are bringing the phase arrival time and polarity picking used for automatic determination of earthquake fault planes to accuracies better than human analysists.

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Basement Structure Mapped by Phase Autocorrelations of Noise

by M. K. Savage 9 July 201813 January 2022

Cross-correlations of ambient seismic noise are combined with well log data to image shallow crustal basement features in the Ebro Basin in Spain.

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