Preliminary study of the straticulate structure of crust-mantle beneath east Guangdong and south Fujian Provinces of China

Using the 12 deep focus teleseismic P waveforms recorded by 6 short-period seismographs in east Guangdong and Fujian region of China as the observed data, synthetic P waveforms comparable to the observed ones are obtained by gradually adjusting the crust-mantle model and calculating the corresponding synthetic seismograms. The results suggest that the crust-mantle structure in this region is a vertically straticulate media structure consisting of 3 pairs of thin layers with a high- and low-velocity alternation. The crustal thickness tends to increase gradually from south to north, being 31.5 km in the south and 32.4 km in the north. Finally, the suggested model is tested using the explosive data of Yunfu, Guangdong Province. The theoretical travel-time of P waves agrees fairly well with the observed travel-time. The Chinese version of this paper appeared in the Chinese edition ofActa Seismologica Sinica,14, 172–179, 1992.