Double event joint location method considering P-wave arrival time system errors

2021 ◽  
Vol 149 ◽  
pp. 106890
Author(s):  
Changbao Jiang ◽  
Caiyun Liu ◽  
Xueyi Shang
Geophysics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 85 (3) ◽  
pp. KS63-KS73
Author(s):  
Yangyang Ma ◽  
Congcong Yuan ◽  
Jie Zhang

We have applied the cross double-difference (CDD) method to simultaneously determine the microseismic event locations and five Thomsen parameters in vertically layered transversely isotropic media using data from a single vertical monitoring well. Different from the double-difference (DD) method, the CDD method uses the cross-traveltime difference between the S-wave arrival time of one event and the P-wave arrival time of another event. The CDD method can improve the accuracy of the absolute locations and maintain the accuracy of the relative locations because it contains more absolute information than the DD method. We calculate the arrival times of the qP, qSV, and SH waves with a horizontal slowness shooting algorithm. The sensitivities of the arrival times with respect to the five Thomsen parameters are derived using the slowness components. The derivations are analytical, without any weak anisotropic approximation. The input data include the cross-differential traveltimes and absolute arrival times, providing better constraints on the anisotropic parameters and event locations. The synthetic example indicates that the method can produce better event locations and anisotropic velocity model. We apply this method to the field data set acquired from a single vertical monitoring well during a hydraulic fracturing process. We further validate the anisotropic velocity model and microseismic event locations by comparing the modeled and observed waveforms. The observed S-wave splitting also supports the inverted anisotropic results.


Author(s):  
Masumi Yamada ◽  
Jim Mori

Summary Detecting P-wave onsets for on-line processing is an important component for real-time seismology. As earthquake early warning systems around the world come into operation, the importance of reliable P-wave detection has increased, since the accuracy of the earthquake information depends primarily on the quality of the detection. In addition to the accuracy of arrival time determination, the robustness in the presence of noise and the speed of detection are important factors in the methods used for the earthquake early warning. In this paper, we tried to improve the P-wave detection method designed for real-time processing of continuous waveforms. We used the new Tpd method, and proposed a refinement algorithm to determine the P-wave arrival time. Applying the refinement process substantially decreases the errors of the P-wave arrival time. Using 606 strong motion records of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake sequence to test the refinement methods, the median of the error was decreased from 0.15 s to 0.04 s. Only three P-wave arrivals were missed by the best threshold. Our results show that the Tpd method provides better accuracy for estimating the P-wave arrival time compared to the STA/LTA method. The Tpd method also shows better performance in detecting the P-wave arrivals of the target earthquakes in the presence of noise and coda of previous earthquakes. The Tpd method can be computed quickly so it would be suitable for the implementation in earthquake early warning systems.


2014 ◽  
Vol 1003 ◽  
pp. 124-129
Author(s):  
Jian Xu Lu ◽  
Cheng Jia Ma

Among the available fault location methods based on traveling waves, calibrations of wave velocity and wave arrival time are the two main problems. This paper proposes a new fault location method which combines the two problems mentioned above. In this method, the first wave and second wave obtained at one side and the first wave obtained at the other side is used to locate the fault point. And the Hilbert-Huang transform is used in the calibration of wave arrival time, making the method more accurate than using wavelet transform. This method has the following two advantages: At first, it dismisses the influence of wave velocity. In the second, it doesn’t need to distinguish the sources of the received waves. ATP-EMTP’s simulation results show that this method is available and the location precision is higher than traditional fault location methods.


2021 ◽  
Vol 873 (1) ◽  
pp. 012061
Author(s):  
Y H Lumban Gaol ◽  
R K Lobo ◽  
S S Angkasa ◽  
A Abdullah ◽  
I Madrinovella ◽  
...  

Abstract The traditional method in determining first arrival time of earthquake dataset is time consuming process due to waveform manual inspection. Additional waveform attributes can help determine events detection. One of the widely used attribute is The Short Term Averaging/Long Term Averaging (STA/LTA) which is simply division moving average of waveform amplitude between short time and longer time. Alternatively, waveform attribute can also be built using kurtosis and skewness. The kurtosis attribute is defined as sharpness of data distribution. By definition, the maximum signal should be at or close to the P wave arrival. The skewness is typically used to show normal distribution of the data. The uniqueness of this method is that it has an ability to determine whether the first P wave arrival has positive of negative number. The skewness calculation is similar to kurtosis but it uses the power of 3 instead of 4. With the objective of generating efficient scheme to pick first time arrival, we explore use artificial neural network and a combination of kurtosis and skewness attributes. We use a collection of magnitude events with moment magnitude larger than 3 located close to Moluccas island, Indonesia. We collected all events information from the Indonesian Agency of Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics. The process is started with manually pick all P wave arrivals using manual inspection. Next, we trained the artificial neural network with attributes numbers as inputs and arrival time we manually picked as the output. In total we used 100 regional events that has clear P wave phases. Then, we validated the results until reaching 0.99 accuracy. In the last step, we tested the once trained procedures on new waveforms contained events. Current result shows an average of 0.4s different between manual pick and trained picked from machine learning. The accuracy can be improved by applying a band pass 0.1-2 Hz filtering with an average of 0.2s.


2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-113
Author(s):  
Kyung-Soo Lee ◽  
Seong-Ha Cho ◽  
Chang-Soo Lee ◽  
Young-Chul Choi ◽  
Bo-Sun Yoo

Geophysics ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 508-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Nagano ◽  
H. Niitsuma ◽  
N. Chubachi

An automatic acoustic emission (AE) source location algorithm has been developed for downhole AE measurement of subsurface cracks by using the triaxial hodogram method. The P-wave arrival time is detected by analyzing crosscorrelation coefficients among three components of AE signal energy; the P-wave direction is determined by the method of least squares. For detection of S-wave arrival time, a maximum‐likelihood method analyzes a distribution of instantaneous values of the SH-wave component amplitude. This algorithm can locate an AE source as accurately as human analysis. For field measurements, it takes less than 4 s to locate an AE source using a 16-bit personal computer with a program in C language. Automatic AE source location by the triaxial hodogram method has been realized with this algorithm.


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