Locating microseismic sources with a single seismometer channel using coda wave interferometry

Zhao, Youqian; Curtis, Andrew; Baptie, Brian. 2017 Locating microseismic sources with a single seismometer channel using coda wave interferometry. Geophysics, 82 (3). A19-A24. https://doi.org/10.1190/geo2016-0404.1

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A novel source location method based on coda wave interferometry (CWI) was applied to a microseismic data set of mining-induced events recorded in Nottinghamshire, England. CWI uses scattered waves in the coda of seismograms to estimate the differences between two seismic states. We used CWI to estimate the distances between pairs of earthquake locations, which are then used jointly to determine the relative location of a cluster of events using a probabilistic framework. We evaluated two improvements to this location technique: These account for the impact of a large difference in the dominant wavelength of a recording made on different instruments, and they standardize the selection of parameters to be used when implementing the method. Although the method has been shown to produce reasonable estimates on larger earthquakes, we tested the method for microseismic events with shorter distinguishable codas in recorded waveforms, and hence, fewer recorded scattered waves. The earthquake location results are highly consistent when using different individual seismometer channels, showing that it is possible to locate event clusters with a single-channel seismometer. We thus extend the potential applications of this cost-effective method to seismic events over a wider range of magnitudes.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1190/geo2016-0404.1
ISSN:	0016-8033
Date made live:	03 Oct 2017 15:10 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/517978

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