Articles | Volume 7, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-7-1521-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-7-1521-2016
Research article
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07 Nov 2016
Research article |  | 07 Nov 2016

Fully probabilistic seismic source inversion – Part 2: Modelling errors and station covariances

Simon C. Stähler and Karin Sigloch

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Seismic source inversion is the method of inferring the spatial orientation of an earthquake source from seismic records. The results come with large uncertainties, which we try to estimate in a Bayesian approach. We propose an empirical relationship for the likelihood function based on a large dataset of deterministic solutions. This allows using the cross-correlation coefficient as a misfit criterion, which is better suited for waveform comparison than the popular root mean square or L2 norm.