Regional fast-marching tomography in intracontinental settings: preliminary analysis of limitations and potential

Abstract

Seismic tomography can be applied to different scales. Over the last two decades, monitoring systems, technical innovations and methodologies have substantially improved, resulting in accurate tomographic images at the global and local scales. Nowadays it is easy to perform traveltime tomography with local seismicity thanks to the increasing density of seismic stations. Nevertheless, it is unlikely to have earthquakes that properly cover the whole studied area at the requested depths. For this reason, many tomographic images are obtained with teleseisms and both far and local earthquakes.