Description
The shear-wave splitting measurements for western and central United States is a teleseismic shear-wave splitting (SWS) database based on all the data from all the broadband seismic stations in North America that contains over 16,000 pairs of well-defined (and manually checked) SWS measurements for the western and central United States (west of 90°W).
Table below shows the content of this database. The columns in the database are as follows (columns in bold are shown in table below) :
- Station_network name. The station name is padded with "x"s if it has less than 6 characters, and the network name is padded with a "y" if it has only one character
- Phase name (SKS, PKS, SKK which is SKKS)
- Event name (EQ + yr + ddd + hh + mm)
- Station latitude in degrees
- Station longitude in degrees
- phi, fast polarization direction in degree, measured clockwise from the North
- Standard deviation of the fast direction in degree
- dt, splitting time in second
- Standard deviation of the splitting time in second
- Back azimuth, measured clockwise from the North
- Modulo-90 degree back-azimuth
- Event latitude
- Event longitude
- Event depth
- Rank, measurement quality
- Longitude of XKS raypiercing point at 200 km depth
- Latitude of XKS raypiercing point at 200 km depth
- For more information on this database go to the product description page
- View the Missouri S&T shear-wave splitting database README
- View the Missouri S&T shear-wave splitting database content as text
- Download the Missouri S&T shear-wave splitting database
- Download the related computer codes (coming soon)
Citation
If you use these data in publications please cite:
- Liu, K.H., A. Elsheikh, A. Lemnifi, U. Purevsuren, M. Ray, H. Refayee, B. Yang, Y. Yu, and S.S. Gao (2014), A uniform database of teleseismic shear wave splitting measurements for the western and central United States, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems , doi: 10.1002/2014GC005267
- Yang, B.B., S.S. Gao, K.H. Liu, A.A. Elsheikh, A.A. Lemnifi, H.A. Refayee, and Y. Yu (2014), Seismic anisotropy and mantle flow beneath the northern Great Plains of North America, Journal of Geophysical Research, , volume 119, doi: 10.1002/2013JB010561
- Trabant, C., A. R. Hutko, M. Bahavar, R. Karstens, T. Ahern and R. Aster (2012), Data products at the IRIS DMC: stepping-stones for research and other application, Seismological Research Letters, 83(6), 846:854. doi: 10.1785/0220120032
Repository
- click links under Station column for a station summary plot
- click links under Plot column for the corresponding Shear-wave splitting measurement plot
NOTE: The following table contains over 15,000 rows and as a result, depending on the browser, the vertical scrollbar on its right edge may not be visible. Hover over the right edge of the table to see the scrollbar or use your mouse scroll wheel to scroll the table
