Comment on 'Systematic determination of earthquake rupture directivity and fault planes from analysis of long-period P-wave spectra' by L. M. Warren and P. M. Shearer

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Warren and Shearer describe a method of estimating the duration of P pulses radiated by earthquakes, on the assumption that the source is a unilateral fracture. The estimates are made in the frequency domain. The estimates obtained by Warren and Shearer for seven of the earthquakes are compared to durations estimated here in the time domain; the time-domain measurements being made on broad-band seismograms (∼0.1-4.0 Hz) derived by filtering from short-period recordings. Overall, the time-domain method indicates that the pulse duration of the earthquakes studied here range from 2.0 to 7.6 s, whereas the estimates from the results of Warren and Shearer range from 7.1 to 9.8 s. This suggests that the method of Warren and Shearer cannot resolve pulse lengths less than about 7 s. The suggestion is supported by the estimates of the duration of rupture - fault length/speed of rupture - implied by the results of Warren and Shearer. For, although the estimated fault-length ranges from 0.8 km to over 40 km most rupture durations are around 8 s. © British Crown Copyright 2007/MOD Journal compilation © 2007 RAS.

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Douglas, A. (2007, May). Comment on “Systematic determination of earthquake rupture directivity and fault planes from analysis of long-period P-wave spectra” by L. M. Warren and P. M. Shearer. Geophysical Journal International. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03370.x

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