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IUGG XXIV General Assembly July 2-13, 2007 Perugia, Italy<br />

(S) - <strong>IASPEI</strong> - International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's<br />

Interior<br />

JSS014 Oral Presentation 2258<br />

Estimating Moho Depth and 1-D Velocity Structure of the Himalaya Region<br />

using GA-MHYPO with HIMNT Earthquake Data<br />

Prof. Woohan Kim<br />

Seismology AGU IAVCEI<br />

Charlotte Rowe<br />

We present preliminary results of velocity analysis and hypocenter relocation for the Nepal/Tibet<br />

Himalaya. Based on the results of the Himalaya Nepal Tibet Seismic experiment (HIMNT), a Program for<br />

the Array Seismic Studies of the Crust and Lithosphere (PASSCAL) deployment that operated from 2001-<br />

2003, we have selected several earthquakes whose hypocenters place them within the upper mantle<br />

and crust. Phases were re-picked using amplitude and signal linearity measures (Park et al., 2004) to<br />

reduce reading error. We then jointly solved for new hypocentral parameters and average 1-D velocity<br />

structure for the source/network vicinity using GA-HYPO (Kim et al., 2006). GA-MHYPO is a genetic<br />

algorithm for optimizing hypocentral parameters and 1-D velocity structure by searching for a global<br />

solution to the 1-D velocity within prescribed ranges, seeking the minimum travel-time difference<br />

between observed and calculated phase arrivals. The velocity model (i.e., number of layers and their<br />

thickness) in this study is modified depending on the number of earthquakes and their depth<br />

distribution. Preliminary results indicate that the variation in Moho depth and velocity structure of the<br />

Himalaya region are significiant, as has been proposed in previous analyses (e.g., Monsalve et al.,<br />

2006).<br />

Keywords: moho depth, velocity, ga mhypo

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