@article {vidalesbasurto_attenuation_2014,
	title = {An Attenuation Study of Body Waves in the South-Central Region of the Gulf of California, M{\'e}xico},
	journal = {Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America},
	volume = {104},
	number = {4},
	year = {2014},
	month = {jul},
	pages = {2027{\textendash}2042},
	abstract = {{We studied the seismic attenuation of body waves in the south-central region of the Gulf of California (GoC) with records from the Network of Autonomously Recording Seismographs of Baja California (NARS-Baja), from the Centro de Investigaci{\'o}n Cient{\'\i}fica y de Educaci{\'o}n Superior de Ensenada{\textquoteright}s Broadband Seismological Network of the GoC (RESBAN), and from the ocean-bottom seismographs (OBS) deployed as part of the Sea of Cortez Ocean Bottom Array experiment (SCOOBA). We examine 27 well-located earthquakes reported in Sumy et~al. (2013) that occurred from October 2005 to October 2006 with magnitudes (Mw) between 3.5 and 4.8. We estimated S-wave site effects by calculating horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratios and determined attenuation functions with a nonparametric model by inverting the observed spectral amplitudes of 21 frequencies between 0.13 and 12.59~Hz for the SCOOBA (OBS) stations and 19 frequencies between 0.16 and 7.94~Hz for NARS-Baja and RESBAN stations. We calculated the geometrical spreading and the attenuation (1/Q) factors for two distance intervals (10{\textendash}120 and 120{\textendash}220~km, respectively) for each frequency considered. The estimates of Q obtained with the SCOOBA (OBS) records for the interval 10{\textendash}120~km indicate that the P waves attenuate more than S waves (QP=34{\textpm}1.2f 0.82{\textpm}0.10},
	issn = {0037-1106},
	doi = {10.1785/0120140015},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1785/0120140015},
	author = {Vidales-Basurto, Claudia A. and Castro, Ra{\'u}l R. and Huerta, Carlos I. and Sumy, Danielle F. and Gaherty, James B. and Collins, John A.}
}
