A student's guide to teleseismic body wave amplitudes

Discusses the nature of the various factors contributing to the amplitude of a teleseismic body wave in the context of a geometrical ray solution, specifically: the radiation of elastic waves into an elastic medium by a point source; the radiation patterns resulting from the orientation of the double-couple in space; the effect of propagation through a radially heterogeneous Earth; the effect of anelastic attenuation; the contribution of depth phases to the seismogram; and the influence of distance on the receiver response function. -from Author