“…The ray paths required for determining the P-wave travel times are calculated using the high frequency approximation of the elastic wave equation in two steps. First, Dijkstra"s algorithm (e.g., Dijkstra, 1959;Moser, 1991;Bogiatzis, 2010) is applied to compute a first estimation of the ray path, in the sense of the fastest path that connects the source and the station following the Fermat"s principle (e.g., Bóna & Slawinski, 2003;Červený, 2005). The ray path is constructed from linear segments that connect different nodes of the model, and the time delay along each segment is approximated by considering its length and the average of the velocities between the nodes it connects.…”