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http://dx.doi.org/10.7582/GGE.2017.20.1.001

A Study on the Improvement of Microseismic Monitoring Accuracy by Borehole 3-Component Measurement Field Experiments  

Kim, Jungyul (Soam Consultant Co., Ltd.)
Kim, Yoosung (Soam Consultant Co., Ltd.)
Yun, Jeumdong (Soam Consultant Co., Ltd.)
Kwon, Sungil (Soam Consultant Co., Ltd.)
Kwon, Hyongil (Soam Consultant Co., Ltd.)
Park, Seongbin (Technology Research Center, Mine Reclamation Corporation)
Park, Juhyun (Technology Research Center, Mine Reclamation Corporation)
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Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration / v.20, no.1, 2017 , pp. 1-11 More about this Journal
Abstract
In order to improve the accuracy of microseismic epicenter location through the inversion techniques using P and S wave first arrivals, field experiments of microseismic monitoring were performed using borehole 3-component geophones. The direction of epicenter was estimated from the hodograms of P-wave first arrivals through the weight drop experiments in which the $\times$ component of 3-component geophone was aligned to the magnetic north. The picking of S wave first arrival was possible in the polarization filtered data even if S waves are difficult to be identified in raw data. The inversion technique using only P wave first arrival times can often converge to the local minimum when the initial values for epicenter are largely apart from the true epicenter, so that the correct solution can not be found. To solve this problem, the epicenter determination method using differences between P and S wave arrival times was used to estimate proper initial values of epicenter. The inversion result using only P-wave first arrival times which started from the estimated initial values showed the improved accuracy of the epicenter location.
Keywords
Microseismic monitoring; Epicenter location; Inversion using first arrival times; Polarization filter; borehole 3-component geophone;
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