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SeismPol - A visual-basic computer program for interactive and automatic earthquake waveform analysis

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Domenico Patanè *
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Ferruccio Ferrari
DOI:10.1016/S0098-3004(97)00062-9delete
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A Microsoft Visual-Basic computer program far waveform analysis of seismic signals is presented. The program combines interactive and automatic processing of digital signals using data recorded by three-component seismic stations. The analysis procedure can be used in either an interactive earthquake analysis or an automatic on-line processing of seismic recordings. The algorithm works in the time domain using the Covariance Matrix Decomposition method (CMD), so that polarization characteristics may be computed continuously in real time and seismic phases can be identified and discriminated. Visual inspection of the particle motion in hortogonal planes of projection (hodograms) reduces the danger of misinterpretation derived from the application of the polarization filter. The choice of time window and frequency intervals improves the quality of the extracted polarization information. In fact, the program uses a band-pass Butterworth filter to process the signals in the frequency domain by analysis of a selected signal window into a series of narrow frequency bands. Significant results supported by well defined polarizations and source azimuth estimates for P and S phases are also obtained for short-period seismic events (local microearthquakes). (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Keywords:
Visual Basic
three-component seismic data
interactive and automatic analysis
polarization
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