Think of the migration of a
common-depth-point stack as downward continuation in
-space.
Ordinarily, velocity increases with depth.
As the downward continuation proceeds,
the velocity cutoff along the evanescent line
bites out more and more area
from the
-space.
Energy beyond this cutoff does not fit the primary wave-propagation
model, and it should be suppressed as soon as it is encountered.
Such noise suppression can lead to a large drop in total power
at late times.