Open AccessThe travel time of P seismic waves in Europe and Western Russia
Author(s) -
England P. C.,
Worthington M. H.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
geophysical journal of the royal astronomical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.302
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1365-246X
pISSN - 0016-8009
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-246x.1977.tb01285.x
Subject(s) - seismology , travel time , geology , arrival time , mediterranean climate , geography , engineering , archaeology , transport engineering
Summary Over 4000 arrival times at WWSSN stations in Europe from earth‐quakes in the Eastern Mediterranean and from presumed Russian nuclear explosions are used to define first arrival travel‐time curves for the region. Travel times within Europe show no broad regional variation and are considerably slower than those predicted by published velocity models for Fennoscandia and the Russian Platforms. The travel times from the Russian explosions differ only slightly from the European ones and it is concluded that the transition to a region of higher average velocity occurs far enough east for most of the data in this study to be representative of the lower, ‘European', velocity structure.