Ocean Acoustics Library - OALIB
The Ocean Acoustics library contains acoustic modeling software and data. It is supported by the U.S. Office of Naval Research (Ocean Acoustics Program) as a means of publishing software of general use to and in support of the international ocean acoustics community.
Featured Project
2021 – Earthquake T-wave propagation from the Pacific Kermadec Trench to the Atlantic Ocean
![Kermadec Trench earthquake epicenter and the geodesic path (dashed white line) to the CTBT IMS H10N array (Ascension Island). Red lines present the back-azimuth geopaths of the T-wave arrivals detected at H10N.](https://oalib-acoustics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Earthquake.png)
Kermadec Trench earthquake epicenter and the geodesic path (dashed white line) to the CTBT IMS H10N array (Ascension Island). Red lines present the back-azimuth geopaths of the T-wave arrivals detected at H10N.
![Comparison of 2d vs 3d propagation modeling from T-wave source](https://oalib-acoustics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Figure2c-1024x563.png)
Comparison of 2d vs 3d propagation modeling from T-wave source
On 18 June 2020, an Mw7.4 submarine earthquake occurred in the Kermadec Trench, northeast of New Zealand. This powerful earthquake triggered energetic tertiary waves (T-waves) that propagated through the South Pacific Ocean into the South Atlantic Ocean, where the T-waves recorded by a hydrophone station near Ascension Island 15,127 km away from the epicenter. A three-dimensional PE sound propagation model was used to investigate the discrepancy betwen the T-wave ageo-path and the back-azimuth propagated paths. (JASA Express Lett. 1, 126001 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0008939)