Staff profiles
Rafael BenitesSeismologist
Qualifications
- PhD, Geophysics
Areas of expertise
- Geophysics: Seismology
- Geophysics: Mathematical inversion techniques
- Geophysics: Seismic wave propagation
- Geophysics: Volcano Seismology
- Geophysics: Acoustics
- Geophysics: Seismic Scattering
- Geophysics: Near-surface wave propogation effects
- Geophysics: Time series techniques for data analysis
- Geophysics: Modelling earthquake source processes
- Geophysics: Earthquake strong-motion
Major Publications
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- The 2016 Kaikoura earthquake revealed by kinematic source inversion and seismic wavefield simulations : slow rupture propagation on a geometrically complex crustal fault network, Geophysical Research Letters 44(22): p. 11320-11328. DOI: 10.1002/2017GL075301.
- The character of accelerations in the Mw 6.2 Christchurch Earthquake, Seismological Research Letters 82(6): p. 846-852. DOI: 10.1785/gssrl.82.6.846.
- A ground-motion transfer function matrix between two nearby rock and soil sites : a system identification problem, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 101(1): p. 222-234. DOI: 10.1785/0120090323.
- Modeling strong ground motion in the Wellington metropolitan area, New Zealand, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 95(6): p. 2180-2196.
- Tornillos beneath Tongariro Volcano, New Zealand, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 125(1/2): p. 151-169. DOI: 10.1016/S0377-0273(03)00094-5.
- Scattering of seismic waves by cracks with the boundary integral method, Pure and Applied Geophysics 159(7-8): p. 1771-1789.
- Upgrading a synthetic seismicity model for more realistic fault ruptures, Geophysical Research Letters 28(9): p. 1843-1846.
- Seismic response of multi-layered basins with velocity gradients upon incidence of plane shear waves, Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics 27(1): p. 15-28.
- Spatial variation of coda wave amplitude in media with a localized heterogeneous region, Earth, Planets and Space 50(4): p. 303-312.
- Scattering of elastic waves in 2-D composite media. II, Waveforms and spectra, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 104(1-3): p. 175-192. DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(97)00054-X.
- Coda Q in two-layer random media, Geophysical Journal International 128: p. 425-433.
- Scattering of elastic waves in 2-D composite media. I, Theory and test, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 104(1-3): p. 161-173. DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(97)00096-4.
- Coda Q as a combination of scattering and intrinsic attenuation : numerical simulations with the boundary integral method, Pure and Applied Geophysics 148(1/2): p. 255-268.
- Synthetic seismicity models for the Wellington Region, New Zealand : implications for the temporal distribution of large events, Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth 101(B12): p. 27833-27844. DOI: 10.1029/96JB02533.
- Synthetic seismicity models of multiple interacting faults, Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth 100(B9): p. 18229-18238. DOI: 10.1029/95JB01569.
- Relation between direct wave Q and coda Q : a numerical approach, Geophysical Journal International 123(2): p. 471-483.
- Comparison of linear and nonlinear seismic responses of two-dimensional alluvial basins, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 85(3): p. 874-889.
- Teleseismic waveform anomalies observed during the passive 1993 Jemez Tomography Experiment, Seismological Research Letters 65(1): p. 16.
- Ground motion at mountains and sedimentary basins with vertical seismic velocity gradient, Geophysical Journal International 116(1): p. 95-118.
- Multiple scattering of SH waves in 2-D media with many cavities, Pure and Applied Geophysics 138(3): p. 353-390.