Joint inversion of teleseismic P waveforms and surface-wave group velocities from ambient seismic noise in the Bohemian Massif

• Published in: Studia geophysica et geodaetica 2012, Vol.56 (1), p.107-140
• Main Authors: Rzek, Bohuslav, Plomerová, Jaroslava, Babuska, Vladislav
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Algorithms; Atmospheric Sciences; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; Earthquakes; Elastic waves; Geological structures; Geophysics; Geophysics/Geodesy; Plate tectonics; Seismic activity; Seismology; Structural Geology; Surface waves; Wave velocity
• ISSN: 0039-3169; 1573-1626
• DOI: 10.1007/s11200-010-9089-7

Joint inversion of teleseismic P-waveforms and local group velocities of surface waves retrieved from ambient seismic noise has been performed to model velocity structure of the crust and uppermost mantle of the Bohemian Massif. We analysed P-waveforms of 381 teleseismic earthquakes recorded at 54 broadband seismic stations located on the territory of the Czech Republic and in its close surroundings. Group velocities of Rayleigh and Love surface waves were obtained by cross-correlating long-term recordings of seismic noise. The basis for waveform inversion is the well-known methodology of P-to-S receiver functions constructed from converted phases. Due to instabilities in direct inversion of receiver functions caused by the necessity of applying deconvolution, we propose an alternative formulation to fit observed and calculated radial components of P waveforms. The joint inversion is transformed into a search for the minimum of the cost function defined as a weighted sum of waveform and group velocity misfits. With the use of the robust stochastic optimizer (Differential Evolution Algorithm), neither derivatives nor a starting model are needed. The task was solved for 1D layered isotropic models of the crust and the uppermost mantle. We have performed a sequence of inversions with models containing one, two, three and four layers above a half-space. By using statistical criteria (F-test) we were able to select the simplest velocity models satisfying data and representing local geological structures. Complex crustal models are typical for stations located close to boundaries of major tectonic units. The relatively low average P to S wave-velocity ratio is in agreement with the generally accepted view that the BM crust is predominantly felsic.