Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

How deep ocean-land coupling controls the generation of secondary microseism Love waves

  • Florian Le Pape,
  • David Craig,
  • Christopher J. Bean

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22591-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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The authors here study the origin of seismic Love waves induced by ocean waves. The study finds Love waves to originate along steep bathymetry and underlying geological interfaces, particularly sedimentary basins, yielding spatio-temporal information about ocean-land coupling in deep water.