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Introductory seismology with animations
Seismic wavefield perturbed by plumes and slabs
This video shows the seismic wavefield of an earthquake in a mantle that contains a subducting slab on the left and an upwelling megaswell-structure on the right. The situation is comparable to Southern America on the left and Africa on the right with the earthquake happening in the Central Atlantic ocean at the mid-ocean ridge.
Note that the velocity anomalies are exaggerated to make the effect more prominent.
Seismic wavefield in the Jovian moon Europa
AxiSEM is able to model seismic wave propagation in terrestrial planets in general. One of the most fascinating objects in the solar system is Europa, with its abysmal ocean below a few kilometers of ice. The structure results in a wavefield that is completely different from what we see on Earth. Most of the wave energy is either contained inside the ice (especially SH-waves) or is reverberating inside the ocean.
Seismic wavefield in the Earth
This video shows the seismic wavefield in the Earth's mantle assuming the velocity depends only on depth.
Seismic wavefield perturbed by a megaswell-structure
This video shows a wavefield in a mantle that contains a megaswell.
Current collaborations
standing next to giants (without stepping on their toes)
Philippe Lognonné
Université de Paris / IPGP
The original planetary seismologist. Philippe was behind the decade-long effort to get a seismometer to Mars. We collaborate on InSight and after InSight towards the moon.
Mark Panning
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mark is at the place that gets stuff to space and to planets. He makes sure that seismometers are on board.
Domenico Giardini
ETH Zürich
The head of our group at ETH. Together, we aim at investigating what InSight's seismic data tells us about Mars.
Kasra Hosseini
University of Oxford / Alan Turing Institute
Kasra will be the first to use M.C. Kernel for a seismic tomography, based on his extensive P and Pdiff dataset
Anna Mittelholz
Harvard University
Despite not being a seismologist, Anna is curious about marsquakes and what they tell us about the planet's geological history.
Céline Hadziioannou
University of Hamburg
Earthquake-free seismology. Using seismic signals created from ocean waves, trucks or just anything for monitoring.
MC Kernel
Calculate seismic sensitivity kernels on irregular meshes for high frequencies
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