Ari Ben-Menahem
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ari Ben-Menahem has been professor of mathematics and geophysics at the Weizmann Institute of Science since 1964 and visiting professor at MIT. He is a seismologist, author, polymath, and historian of science. He coauthored with Sarvajit Singh, "Seismic Waves and Sources: the mathematical theory of seismology", a pioneering treatise since the nascent of this discipline at the turn of the 20th century.
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Published Works
- Seismic waves and sources (1981) (671)
- Radiation of seismic surface-waves from finite moving sources (1961) (378)
- Attenuation of seismic energy in the upper mantle (1965) (340)
- Tectonics, seismicity and structure of the Afro-Eurasian junction — the breaking of an incoherent plate (1976) (281)
- Amplitude patterns of tsunami waves from submarine earthquakes (1972) (181)
- Radiation patterns of seismic surface waves from buried dipolar point sources in a flat stratified Earth (1964) (175)
- Four thousand years of seismicity along the Dead Sea Rift (1991) (168)
- The source of the great Assam earthquake — an interplate wedge motion (1974) (131)
- Source parameters of the siberian explosion of June 30, 1908, from analysis and synthesis of seismic signals at four stations (1975) (117)
- A procedure for source studies from spectrums of long-period seismic body waves (1965) (106)
- Radiation of Seismic Body Waves from a Finite Moving Source in the Earth (1962) (99)
- "Source mechanism from spectrums of long‐period surface waves: 2. The Kamchatka earthquake of November 4,1952"" (1963) (97)
- Multipolar elastic fields in a layered half space (1968) (96)
- Experimental determination of earthquake fault length and rupture velocity (1961) (92)
- Eigenvector Expansions of Green's Dyads with Applications to Geophysical Theory (1968) (88)
- Range of validity of seismic ray and beam methods in general inhomogeneous media - I. General theory (1985) (80)
- Determination of source parameters by amplitude equalization of seismic surface waves: 2. Release of tectonic strain by underground nuclear explosions and mechanisms of earthquakes (1965) (79)
- Observed Attenuation and Q Values of Seismic Surface Waves in the Upper Mantle (1965) (78)
- Source-mechanism from spectra of long-period seismic surface waves.3. The Alaska earthquake of July 10, 1958 (1963) (74)
- Fast evaluation of source parameters from isolated surface-wave signals (1970) (68)
- A concise history of mainstream seismology: Origins, legacy, and perspectives (1995) (65)
- Tectonic patterns in the northern Red Sea region (1971) (65)
- Micro- and macroseismicity of the Dead Sea rift and off-coast eastern Mediterranean (1981) (63)
- Source‐mechanism from spectra of long‐period seismic surface‐waves: 1. The Mongolian earthquake of December 4, 1957 (1962) (63)
- Seismic source theory in stratified anisotropic media (1990) (63)
- Variation of slip and creep along the levant rift over the past 4500 years (1981) (60)
- Mechanism of Deep Earthquakes from Spectrums of Isolated Body-Wave Signals (1965) (57)
- Determination of source parameters of explosions and earthquakes by amplitude equalization of seismic surface waves: 1. Underground nuclear explosions (1964) (56)
- Velocities of mantle Love and Rayleigh waves over multiple paths (1963) (54)
- Effects of Major Seismic Events on the Rotation of the Earth (1970) (52)
- Static deformation of a spherical earth model by internal dislocations (1969) (49)
- Residual Deformation of Real Earth Models with Application to the Chandler Wobble (1973) (47)
- Wigner’s rotation revisited (1985) (42)
- Range of validity of seismic ray and beam methods in general inhomogeneous media - II. A canonical problem (1985) (38)
- Mode-Ray Duality (1964) (36)
- Crustal deformation by earthquakes and explosions (1970) (36)
- Application of synthetic seismograms to the study of low-magnitude earthquakes and crustal structure in the northern Red Sea region (1974) (33)
- Elastic wave scattering by anisotropic obstacles: Application to fractured volumes (1991) (33)
- Rate of seismicity of the dead sea region over the past 4000 years (1977) (31)
- Large scale processing of seismic data in search of regional and global stress patterns (1968) (31)
- Source mechanism of the Alaskan earthquake of 1964 from amplitudes of free oscillations and surface waves (1972) (31)
- The elastodynamic near field (1985) (28)
- Dating of historical earthquakes by mud profiles of lake-bottom sediments (1976) (25)
- Green's tensor and radiation patterns of point sources in general anisotropic inhomogeneous elastic media (2007) (24)
- THE DYNAMIC RESPONSE OF AN ELASTIC HALF-SPACE TO AN EXPLOSION IN A SPHERICAL CAVITY (1963) (23)
- Source mechanism of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake (1978) (22)
- Extension and interpretation of the Cagniard-Pekeris method for dislocation sources (1973) (22)
- Deformation of a homogeneous Earth model by finite dislocations (1970) (21)
- Scattering of elastic waves by localized anisotropic inclusions (1990) (21)
- Computation of Models of Elastic Dislocations in the Earth (1972) (20)
- The equivalent force system of a monopole source in a fluid-filled open borehole (1991) (20)
- Surface wave radiation pattern and source mechanism of the September 1, 1962, Iran earthquake (1965) (20)
- Renormalization of the magnitude scale (1977) (19)
- Decoupling of the Vector Wave Equation of Elasticity for Radially Heterogeneous Media (1969) (18)
- Eigenvibrations of the Earth Excited by Finite Dislocations—II Spheroidal Oscillations (1969) (17)
- The Force System of The Chilean Earthquake of 1960 May 22 (1971) (16)
- The elastodynamic Green's tensor in an anisotropic half-space (1990) (16)
- Green’s tensor and its potentials for inhomogeneous elastic media (1987) (16)
- Excitation of seismic surface waves by atmospheric nuclear explosions (1964) (15)
- Spectral response of an elastic sphere to dipolar point-sources (1964) (14)
- Directional attenuation of SH waves in anisotropic poroelastic inhomogeneous media (1993) (13)
- Computation of the Divergence Coefficient for Seismic Phases (1970) (13)
- Asymptotic theory of body waves in a radially heterogeneous Earth (1969) (13)
- Excitation of the Earth's eigenvibrations by gravitational radiation from astrophysical sources (1983) (12)
- Analysis of geomagnetic micropulsations due to high-altitude nuclear explosions (1966) (11)
- Displacement and strain fields due to faulting in a sphere (1969) (11)
- Diffraction of elastic waves from a surface source in a heterogenous medium (1960) (11)
- The Saddle-Point Approximation for Damped Surface Waves (1971) (10)
- A unified approach to the representation of seismic sources (1973) (10)
- Historical Encyclopedia of Natural and Mathematical Sciences (2009) (9)
- SH waves from point sources in anisotropic inhomogeneous media (1990) (9)
- Source Studies from Isolated Seismic Signals (1965) (8)
- The role of the shear mach number in earthquake source dynamics (1976) (8)
- Comments on papers by Costain et al. and McCamy et al. on the solution of Zoeppritz' amplitude equations (1970) (8)
- SUPERSHEAR ACCELERATIONS AND MACH-WAVES FROM A RUPTURING FRONT PART I. THEORETICAL MODEL AND IMPLICATIONS (1987) (8)
- Earthquake similarity laws (1977) (8)
- Theory and Computation of Amplitudes of Terrestrial Line Spectra (1971) (7)
- Deformation of a homogeneous gravitating sphere by internal dislocations (1969) (7)
- Comments on Abe's “Tsunami and mechanism of great earthquakes” (1973) (6)
- Theoretical amplitudes of body waves from a dislocation source in the earth III. P, S and surface reflections (1974) (6)
- Modeling of atmospheric nuclear explosions over a mountainous region by vertical and horizontal single forces (1975) (6)
- On the summation of certain legendre series (1968) (6)
- Seismic source functions for explosions in a non-spherical cavity embedded in a scattering environment: application to the regional discrimination of nuclear explosions and earthquakes (1997) (6)
- Radiation of elastic waves from sources embedded in anisotropic inclusions (1995) (6)
- A method for determination of epicenters of near earthquakes (1960) (6)
- Mercury tiltmeter as an infrasonic detector: Theory, observations, and applications (1972) (5)
- Effect of a non‐linear boundary layer on the radiation from earthquakes and underground nuclear explosions (1998) (5)
- Multipole radiation of seismic waves from explosions in nonspherical cavities and its application to signal identification (1995) (5)
- Changes in the Earth's Inertia Tensor due to Earthquakes by MacCullagh's formula (1975) (4)
- Theoretical amplitudes of body waves from a dislocation source in the earth, I. Core reflections (1972) (4)
- Cross-dating of biblical history via singular astronomical and geophysical events over the ancient near east (1992) (4)
- Residual displacements and strains due to faulting in real Earth models (1974) (3)
- Seismic Plane Waves in a Layered Half-Space (1981) (3)
- Signal enhancement with ‘‘Mach–Čerenkov’’ waves (1991) (3)
- Generalized reflection and transmission coefficients for seismic sources in a multi-layered spherical earth model (1974) (3)
- Representation of Seismic Sources (1981) (3)
- DETERMINATION OF SOURCE PARAMETERS BY AMPLITUDE EQUALIZATION OF SEISMIC SURFACE WAVES. I. UNDERGROUND NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS (1964) (3)
- Vincit Veritas: A Portrait of the Life and Work of Norman Abraham Haskell, 1905–1970 (1990) (3)
- Computer generated P and S waveforms from an earthquake source (1975) (2)
- The P-SV Decoupling Condition and Its Bearing on the Structure of the Earth (1970) (2)
- Vector-scattering of elastic waves by directional structural space gradients (1988) (2)
- Green’s tensors and associated potentials for electromagnetic waves in inhomogeneous material media (1989) (2)
- PEAK ACCELERATIONS FROM SUBSHEAR AND SUPERSHEAR RADIATION OF KINEMATIC DISLOCATION MODELS (1986) (2)
- With a camera in the ghetto (1978) (2)
- Theoretical amplitudes of body waves from a dislocation source in the Earth II. Core phases (1973) (2)
- Theoretical Rayleigh and Love Waves from Explosions in Nonspherical Cavities and from Tectonic Release in Compressive Stress Fields (2017) (2)
- Seismic waves from non-double-couple sources (1988) (2)
- Summation of Certain Legendre Series and Related Difference Equations (1966) (1)
- Reply [to “Comment on ‘Analysis of geomagnetic micropulsations due to high‐altitude nuclear explosions’ R. L. Kovach and A. Ben‐Menahem”] (1966) (1)
- Deformation of a Non-Gravitating Elastic Sphere by a Finite Internal Dislocation (1966) (1)
- Generalized Multipolar Ray Theory for Surface and Shallow Sources (1976) (1)
- Waves in Infinite Media (1981) (1)
- Classical Continuum Dynamics (1981) (1)
- Elastic wave-motion across a vertical discontinuity (1975) (1)
- Deformation of a Spherical Earth Model by Finite Dislocations (1970) (1)
- The Clockwork Universe (2009) (1)
- The Seismicity of the Near East – Past and Present (1987) (1)
- A new derivation of the ratio Q(wobble)/Qμ (mantle) (1982) (1)
- Seismic Wave Motion in Anelastic Media (1981) (1)
- Seismic wave propagation, attenuation and scattering over regional distances (1989) (0)
- Analysis of Regional Phases Using Three-Component Data (1988) (0)
- Seismic Source Identification Techniques (1971) (0)
- A comment on “A modified form of the Gutenberg-Richter magnitude-frequency relation” by J. Lomnitz-Adler and C. Lomnitz (1981) (0)
- Atmospheric and Water Waves and Companion Seismic Phenomena (1981) (0)
- Seismic-wave propagation, attenuation and scattering over regional distances. Final report, 28 July 1988-27 July 1989 (1989) (0)
- Geometric Elastodynamics: Rays and Generalized Rays (1981) (0)
- The total energy of the Earth's Chandler wobble. (1982) (0)
- GREEN'S DYADICS AND THEORETICAL AMPLITUDES OF THE EARTH'S SPLIT NORMAL MODES (1979) (0)
- On the use of surface waves in earthquake mechanism studies (1967) (0)
- Theoretical Amplitudes of Body Waves from a Dislocation Source in the Earth—I. Core Reflections (1973) (0)
- Normal-Mode Solution for Spherical Earth Models (1981) (0)
- Surface-Wave Amplitude Theory (1981) (0)
- Theoretical Amplitudes of Body Waves from a Dislocation Source in the Earth—II. Core Phases (1973) (0)
- Seismic wave radiation, propagation and event location in laterally heterogeneous media. Final report, 1 July 1993-31 December 1994 (1995) (0)
- Haskell and the Origins of the New Source Theory (2013) (0)
- Correction [to “‘Thermoelastic stresses and the energy of earthquakes’ by E. A. Lubimova and V. A. Magnitzky”] (1964) (0)
- E¡ect of a non-linear boundary layer on the radiation from earthquakes and underground nuclear explosions (1998) (0)
- Book reviewSpectral analysis in geophysics, 7. Developments in solid earth geophysics: M. Båth. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1974, 563 pp., 101 illus., 54 tables, Dfl. 120.00 (1975) (0)
- Thermoelastic stresses and strains in a gravitating earth (1963) (0)
- Introduction to Special Section on 18th Conference on Mathematical Geophysics, Jerusalem, June 1990, in Honor of C. L. Pekeris (1991) (0)
- On: “DIFFRACTION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES BY AN INHOMOGENEOUS SPHERE” BY. J. G. NEGI (GEOPHYSICS, AUGUST 1962, PP. 480–492) (1963) (0)
- Abstracts (1953) (0)
- Research Note Changes in the Earth's Inertia Tensor due by MacCullagh's formula to Earthquakes (1975) (0)
- Properties and applications of a certain operator associated with the Kontorovich-Lebedev transform (1975) (0)
- Asymptotic Theory of the Earth’s Normal Modes (1981) (0)
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