Q Anisotropy in the Region of Garhwal Himalaya

Gaurav Sharma; Akshat Dimri

Abstract

Abstract Empirical relations have been found out to describe the decay in amplitude with distance of s-waves in the region of Garhwal Himalaya. These functions results from the analysis of spectral amplitudes of three component digital records from 19 local earthquakes obtained from 12-station seismological network deployed in the Garhwal lesser Himalaya. The events lie in a magnitude range from ML 2 to ML 4.5, epicentral distance 5 to 120 km and focal depth from 5 to 50 km. To determine the variations of the quality factor Q in the direction of wave propagation (Q anisotropy), independent estimates have been made of the attenuation of SV- and SH-waves using vertically polarized and transversely polarized components, respectively. Frequency analyzed (1–12 Hz) and in the whole distance range, the frequency dependence of Q can be approximated as Qsh = 74.3 f 1.0 for the SH-wave and Qsv = 81.5 f 0.95 for the SV-waves. The small difference between SH and SV spectral decay, suggests that Q anisotropy is negligible. However, in the distance range of 5–50 km, Qsv tends to be significantly greater than Qsh at frequency > 8 Hz. So in this distance range we observed Q anisotropy in the studied region. The dependence of Q value with frequency in this range is Qsh = 110 f 0.94 for SH- wave and Qsv = 134 f1.0 for SV-waves. Keywords: Velocity, Anisotropy, Frequency, S-waveCite this Article Gaurav Sharma, Akshat Dimri. Q Anisotropy in the region of Garhwal Himalaya; Journal of Offshore Structure and Technology. 2016; 3(3): 25–31p.