The seismic pulse in a semi-infinite medium

Summary In a foregoing paper the present author developed methods for studying the transient field from a vertical electric antenna placed in the vicinity of the plane boundary of two semi-infinite dielectric media.As the theory involved is applicable to the comparable elastodynamic pulse problem the present paper deals with the field from a buried transient longitudinal source in an elastic half space.The method appears to be relatively simple and is also applicable to the more general problem in which two elastic semi-infinite solids are separated by a plane boundary.