Accession Number:

AD0499585

Title:

Seismology. Number 14. Further Study of the T Phase.

Descriptive Note:

Technical rept.,

Corporate Author:

LAMONT GEOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY PALISADES NY

Personal Author(s):

• Ewing, Maurice
• Press, Frank
• Worzel, J. L.

Report Date:

1951-07-01

Pagination or Media Count:

25.0

Abstract:

New data are presented in support of the conclusion that the T phase is propagated across oceans as compressional waves in the water. T phases from many circum - Pacific belt shocks were recorded at the Honolulu seismograph station and at the Kaneohe and Point Sur Sofar Stations, permitting the determination of oceanic velocity by simple division of epicential distance by travel time since correction for land travel was unnecessary. The signals were much sharper and less prolonged than those previously studied. Very little scatter in the velocity was observed. Divergent views on the nature of T reported by other investigators are due to complications in path, travel time, land correction introduced by the relatively large proportion of land or shallow water paths involved in the shocks which they have studied. Author

Descriptors:

• (*SEISMIC WAVES
• MARINE GEOPHYSICS)
• EARTHQUAKES
• OCEANS
• SOUND TRANSMISSION
• PROPAGATION
• SEA WATER
• VELOCITY
• TIME
• SHALLOW WATER
• SEISMOMETERS
• PACIFIC OCEAN
• EPICENTERS
• POSITION FINDING

Subject Categories:

• Seismology

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE