Ambient-noise tomography of north Tibet limits geological terrane signature to 
upper-middle crust

Karplus, M. S.; Klemperer, S. L.; Lawrence, J. F.; Zhao, W.; Mechie, James; Tilmann, Frederik; Sandvol, E.; Ni, J.

doi:10.1002/grl.50202

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Ambient-noise tomography of north Tibet limits geological terrane signature to upper-middle crust

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Karplus, M. S.
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Klemperer, S. L.
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Lawrence, J. F.
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Zhao, W.
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Mechie, James
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Tilmann, Frederik
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Sandvol, E.
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Ni, J.
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Karplus, M. S., Klemperer, S. L., Lawrence, J. F., Zhao, W., Mechie, J., Tilmann, F., Sandvol, E., Ni, J. (2013): Ambient-noise tomography of north Tibet limits geological terrane signature to upper-middle crust. - Geophysical Research Letters, 40, 5, 808-813.
https://doi.org/10.1002/grl.50202

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Abstract

The territory of Lithuania and adjacent areas of the East European Craton have always been considered a region of low seismicity. Two recent earthquakes with magnitudes of more than 5 in the Kaliningrad District (Russian Federation) on 21 September 2004 motivated re-evaluation of the seismic hazard in Lithuania and adjacent territories. A new opportunity to study seismicity in the region is provided by the PASSEQ (Pasive Seismic Experiment) project that aimed to study the lithosphere–asthenosphere structure around the Trans-European Suture Zone. Twenty-six seismic stations of the PASSEQ temporary seismic array were installed in the territory of Lithuania. The stations recorded a number of local and regional seismic events originating from Lithuania and adjacent areas. This data can be used to answer the question of whether there exist seismically active tectonic zones in Lithuania that could be potentially hazardous for critical industrial facilities. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to find any natural tectonic seismic events in Lithuania and to obtain more general view of seismicity in the region. In order to do this, we make a manual review of the continuous data recorded by the PASSEQ seismic stations in Lithuania. From the good quality data, we select and relocate 45 local seismic events using the well-known LocSAT and VELEST location algortithms. In order to discriminate between possible natural events, underwater explosions and on-shore blasts, we analyse spatial distribution of epicenters and temporal distribution of origin times and perform both visual analysis of waveforms and spectral analysis of recordings. We show that the relocated seismic events can be grouped into five clusters (groups) according to their epicenter coordinates and origin and that several seismic events might be of tectonic origin. We also show that several events from the off-shore region in the Baltic Sea (at the coasts of the Kaliningrad District of the Russian Federation) are non-volcanic tremors, although the origin of these tremor-type events is not clear.