Page 1 of 32 Geophysical Journal International
Geophys. J. Int. (2000) 142, 000–000
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Lg wave attenuation in Britain 9 10 11 12 13 14 Susanne Sargeant and Lars Ottem¨oller 15 16 17 18 For Peer Review 19 20 Accepted 1999 November 11. Received 1999 October 6; in original form 1999 August 3 21 22 23 24 SUMMARY
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Lg Q 26 The wave quality factor ( Lg ) in Britain has been modelled using data from the UK Seis- 27 mic Network, operated by the British Geological Survey. The dataset consists of 631 vertical,
28 ML 29 mostly short-period recordings of Lg waves from 64 earthquakes (2.7-4.7 ) and 93 sta-
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Q Q Lg 31 tions. We have inverted for both regional average Lg and tomographic images of , and 32 simultaneously a source term for each event and a site term for each station for 22 frequencies
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