Rail and Road Seismology

Session ID#: 118478

Session Description:
High resolution imaging of seismic properties in the crust and monitoring temporal changes of subsurface properties provide fundamental information for a wide variety of basic and applied studies. Trains, trucks and other vehicles on railways and roads act as deterministic repeatable sources of energy that exist broadly at no cost and can be used to image and monitor different sections of the crust. Example targets for imaging and monitoring with Rail and Road Seismology include the geotechnical layer, fault zones and mining/exploration facilities. Recent studies in California, China and other places demonstrated the high utility of Rail and Road Seismology. In this session we encourage contributions on techniques developments and applications of signals generated by rail and road sources. Students and early career scientists are especially invited to participate.
Index Terms:

5144 Wave attenuation [PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ROCKS]
7205 Continental crust [SEISMOLOGY]
7260 Theory [SEISMOLOGY]
7290 Computational seismology [SEISMOLOGY]


Primary Convener:  Yehuda Ben-Zion, University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences and Southern California Earthquake Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Conveners:  Jieyuan Ning, Peking University, Beijing, China, Florent Brenguier, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, ISTerre, Grenoble, France and Haoran Meng, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Haoran Meng, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
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