简介:At12:07UT(8:07pmChinaStandardTime)on2017Oct4,abrightbolidewaswidelyobservedintheShangri-LaregionoftheProvinceofYunnan,China(Figure1).TheeventwaswellobservedbythegeneralpublicasittookplaceonthenightoftheMidAutumnFestival,whichisassociatedwithmoongazing.SonicboomsandgroundshakingwerereportedinanareaofaboutathousandsquarekilometersnorthwestofShangri-LaCity.DatafromU.S.governmentsensorssuggeststhattheimpactenergyoftheeventwasapproximately0.54ktTNTequivalent,withtheterminusofthebolidepositionedat28.1°N,99.4°E.ThisisthelargestobservedbolideeventoverlandsincethebolideeventthattookplaceinMauritaniaon2016Jun27(1.2kt).
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简介:Irregularsurfaceflattening,whichisbasedonaboundaryconforminggridandthetransformationbetweencurvilinearandCartesiancoordinatesystems,isamathematicalmethodthatcanelegantlyhandleirregularsurfaces,buthasbeenlimitedtoobtainingfirstarrivalsonly.Bycombiningamultistageschemewiththefast-sweepingmethod(FSM,themethodtoobtainfirst-arrivaltraveltimeincurvilinearcoordinates),thereflectedwavesfromacrustalinterfacecanbetracedinatopographicmodel,inwhichthereflectedwavefrontisobtainedbyreinitializingtraveltimesintheinterfaceforupwindbranches.Alocaltriangulationisappliedtomakeaconnectionbetweenvelocityandinterfacenodes.Thenajointinversionoffirst-arrivalandreflectiontraveltimesforimagingseismicvelocitystructuresincomplexterrainsispresented.Numericalexamplesallperformwellwithdifferentseismicvelocitymodels.Theincreasingtopographiccomplexityandevenuseofahighcurvaturereflectorinthesemodelsdemonstratethereliability,accuracyandrobustnessofthenewworkingscheme;checkerboardtestingillustratesthemethod’shighresolution.Noisetolerancetestingindicatesthemethod’sabilitytoyieldpracticaltraveltimetomography.Furtherdevelopmentofthemultistageschemewillallowotherlaterarrivalstobetracedandusedinthetraveltimeinversion.