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• TITLE: Measuring Crustal Lg-Waves Attenuation in the Northern Part of Africa

  AUTHORS: Adoum Issak, Christian Camerlynck

  KEYWORDS: Lg-Wave Attenuation, Coda, Q Factor, North Africa

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Earthquake Research, Vol.5 No.2, May 24, 2016

  ABSTRACT: Lg-waves propagate over long distances in the northern part of Africa and are recorded on the seismic station located close to Abeche (Chad). We have applied the well-known coda analysis method developed by Aki and Chouet [1] to study the Lg-wave anelastic attenuation in this area. We found a frequency dependence: Q( f ) = (650±34) f (0.77±0.2). This result shows an average value of Q0 (Q0 ≈ 650) for earthquakes occurred in tectonic areas as the East African Rift system, Turkey, Greece and Red Sea. The higher value of Q0 (Q0 ≈ 800) is obtained for the event occurred in the middle of the stable plate close to the Tamanrasset (TAM) station in Algeria.