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Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America; June 1965; v. 55; no. 3; p. 579-586
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Microearthquake crustal reflections, Socorro, New Mexico

A. R. SANFORD and L. T. LONG

NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY, SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO

Abstract

About 25 per cent of the microearthquakes which originate close to Socorro (S minus P less double equals 2.5 secs) produce seismograms with two sharp arrivals about 2.5 and 5.0 seconds after the direct S-phase arrival. The best interpretation of the time-distance data for these late phases is that they are the SxP and the SxS reflections from a crustal discontinuity at a depth of 18 km. The amplitudes of the reflections, which average 0.21 and 0.32 of the direct S-phase amplitude on vertical-component seismograms, are for greater than theoretical amplitudes found by assuming uniform radiation from the focus and reflection of a plane SV wave from a horizontal discontinuity.




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