Séminaire ISTerre


Oceanic Sources of Seismic Body Waves at the Global Scale: Modeling and Applications.

jeudi 24 octobre 2024 - 11h00
Lisa Tomasetto - PhD Student ISTerre
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Seismic waves traveling through the Earth’s interior represent a main observable constraining the inner Earth’s physical properties, allowing Earth scientists to formulate hypotheses on the processes that govern our planet. However, major Earthquakes occur in redundant areas such as plate boundaries, and broadband seismic stations are heterogeneously distributed on continents, leading to an unevenly illuminated Earth. This limitation affects our ability to capture a global view of Earth's interior Beyond earthquakes, interactions between oceanic waves and the seafloor also generate seismic waves recorded globally and referred to as natural ambient “noise”. In particular, the 3-10s period band, known as the secondary microseismic band, corresponds to non-linear oceanic wave-wave interaction and represents the highest peak in energy in a seismic station PSD. While surface waves are prominent in this band, body waves, which sample deeper areas and are less scattered, can also be identified. These body waves are valuable for examining the properties of the deep Earth due to their sensitivity to the inner medium. Recent improvements in global oceanographic hindcast, such as the WAVEWATCHIII model, have allowed seismologists to track the spatiotemporal behavior of these ocean-generated seismic sources. Since these unconventional sources are non-impulsive, interferometry methods correlating signals between stations for a few hours are necessary to highlight body waves at the global scale. In this two-part talk, I will first introduce the WMSAN Python library, for Wave Model Sources of Ambient Noise, which allows for the visualization of ambient noise sources maps and computation of proxy for seismic observables in a user-friendly fashion. Then I will show an application to travel-time measurements evolution of mantle-sensitive interference (PP-P) for a major oceanic event in the Northern Atlantic from 9-11 December 2014. Confronting our travel times measurements to global 3D model counterparts, we show that such methodology could add measures to traditional earthquake travel times datasets with different coverage.

Equipe organisatrice : Ondes et structures

Amphithéâtre Killian, Maison des Géosciences, 38400 Saint Martin d'Hères

Informations de visio :

https://univ-grenoble-alpes-fr.zoom.us/j/7087695360


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jeudi 17 septembre 2026 - 11h00

Mathieu Causse - ISTerre

Equipe organisatrice : Organisation labo

Amphithéâtre Killian, Maison des Géosciences, 38400 Saint Martin d'Hères

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vendredi 18 septembre 2026 - 14h00

Takatoshi Ito  - Université de Tohoku, Japan

Equipe organisatrice : Mécanique des failles

Amphithéâtre Killian, Maison des Géosciences, 38400 Saint Martin d'Hères

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Tectonics, Mantle Dynamics and Coupled Lithosphere-Mantle-Core Evolution of Earth and Other Rocky Worlds

jeudi 24 septembre 2026 - 11h00

Paul Tackley - ETH Zurich

Equipe organisatrice : Grands Séminaires ISTerre

Amphithéâtre Killian, Maison des Géosciences, 38400 Saint Martin d'Hères

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Tectonics, Mantle Dynamics and Coupled Lithosphere-Mantle-Core Evolution of Earth and Other Rocky Worlds

jeudi 24 septembre 2026 - 11h00

Paul Tackley - ETH Zurich

Equipe organisatrice : Grands Séminaires ISTerre

Amphithéâtre Killian, Maison des Géosciences, 38400 Saint Martin d'Hères

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Apport des expériences analogiques pour la modélisation et le suivi en temps réel de la propagation du magma en profondeur : Exemple du Rift Est Africain

jeudi 1er octobre 2026 - 11h00

Virginie Pinel - ISTerre

Equipe organisatrice : Organisation labo

Amphithéâtre Killian, Maison des Géosciences, 38400 Saint Martin d'Hères

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vendredi 2 octobre 2026 - 11h00

philippe VERNANT - Geosciences Montpellier

Equipe organisatrice : Tectonique active et sismicité

Salle Dolomieu, Maison des Géosciences, 38400 Saint Martin d'Hères

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TBA

vendredi 2 octobre 2026 - 14h00

Hugo Boulze - 

Equipe organisatrice : Cycle sismique et déformations transitoires

Amphithéâtre Killian, Maison des Géosciences, 38400 Saint Martin d'Hères

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TBA

vendredi 9 octobre 2026 - 11h00

Eric Beaucé - ISTerre

Equipe organisatrice : Cycle sismique et déformations transitoires

Salle Dolomieu, Maison des Géosciences, 38400 Saint Martin d'Hères

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TBA

vendredi 20 novembre 2026 - 11h00

Farzaneh Mohammadi - ENS Paris

Equipe organisatrice : Cycle sismique et déformations transitoires

Amphithéâtre Killian, Maison des Géosciences, 38400 Saint Martin d'Hères

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