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Slide 1

Moment tensor inversion at
Pyhasalmi ore mine:
accuracy test using explosions
Daniela Kühn (NORSAR)
V. Vavrycuk (Academy of Sciences of the CR)

AIM 2nd annual meeting, 29-30 Sept 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

Pyhäsalmi ore mine, Finland
• microseismic monitoring:
 since January 2003
 safety of the underground
personnel
 optimisation of mining
process

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

• network:
 12 1-C geophones
+ 6 3-C geophones (ISS)
 3-D geometry
 sampling rate: < 3000 Hz

Summary

owned by Inmet Mining Co.

• events:
 1500 events /months
(including blasting)
 -2 < Mw < 1.5

Inconsistent polarities of P-wave first onset
Moment tensor inversion:
• homogeneous velocity model (as for locations)
• amplitude inversion
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling

Complexity of velocity model
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling: 2D section
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

• E3D: viscoelastic 3-D FD code (Larsen and Schultz, 1995)
• strong interaction with mining cavities: reflection,
scattering, conversion
620 m
• healing of wavefronts

Waveform modelling
synthetic seismograms
- complex waveforms
Introduction

- strong coda

- complex secondary arrivals

Waveform
modelling

- scattering effects stronger
on amplitudes than travel
times,
since
size
of
heterogeneities
(cavities,
access tunnels) same order or
smaller than wavelengths

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

 arrival times computed by
Eikonal solver still fit
(wavefronts heal quickly
after passing a cavitiy)

observed seismograms

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Imaginary
network!
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Influence of proximity to cavity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Real mine
network!

Source depth → ray path
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Ray path → onset polarity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Moment tensor inversion

Amplitude picking
direct wave scattered wave
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

first maximum amplitude = amplitude of the direct wave
direct wave

scattered wave

Summary

energy diffracted
around cavity

?

first maximum amplitude is not always the amplitude of the direct wave

Amplitude vs. waveform inversion
Amplitude inversion:
• homogeneous model of the medium
Introduction

• Green’s functions calculated using ray theory

• inversion of P-wave amplitudes (20-30 amplitudes)
Waveform
modelling

• frequencies: 250-500 Hz
 cannot take into account distortion of rays on focal sphere

Moment
tensor
inversion

 misinterpretation of amplitudes: which one is the direct wave?
Waveform inversion:

Summary

• 3-D heterogeneous model of the medium
• Green’s functions calculated using FD code

• inversion of full waveforms (15-20 waveforms)
• frequencies (at the moment): 25-100 Hz
 inversion is performed in frequency domain
 in principle same inversion algorithm as for amplitude inversion, but run
repeatedly for every frequency band (0.5 Hz steps)

Selected explosions: relocation
expl 1

expl 1

expl 3
Introduction

expl 5
Waveform
modelling

expl 3
Moment
tensor
inversion

expl 5
expl 1

Summary

expl 3

expl 5

Explosions (coords in m):
1) x=8306E y=2312N z=-1238
→ 26 m shift
3) x=8218E y=2192N z=-1352
→ 68 m shift
5) x=8214E y=2168N z=-1356
→ 59 m shift

Examples: good fit

Examples: amplitude misfit

Examples: phase misfit

Inversion results
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

explosion 1

explosion 3

explosion 5

Length of time windows

GF duration [10 ms]

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 1

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 3

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 5

nearly all solutions have high isotropic percentage
best solutions near diagonal
(length of GF time window = length of data time window)
best solutions P –wave + S-wave onset

Explosion 1
Amplitude inversion

Waveform inversion

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

DC = 7%
CLVD = -14%
ISO = 79%

Summary: seismicity in mines
structural model in mines is very complex

Introduction

large and abrupt changes in velocity at
cavities

model varies in time
Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

earthquake source is complex (single
forces, non-DC components)

small changes in source position lead to
large changes in ray propagation, rays can
be strongly curved

radiated wave field is complex
(reflected, converted, scattered waves, head
waves)

Summary: waveform inversion
In general:
• complex Green’s functions can be calculated by 3-D FD codes (accurate model needed!);
Introduction

• sensitive to time shifts due to mislocation or due to inaccurate velocity model

• frequency band of inverted waves can be easily controlled => stability analysis
Waveform
modelling

In particular:
Moment
tensor
inversion

• good network configuration => focal sphere nicely covered

• inversion algorithm:
• optimal with same window length for Green’s functions and data

Summary

• optimal with simultaneous inversion of P- and S-wave, but excluding S-wave coda
• yields high isotropic percentage, higher than amplitude inversion, almost
independently of window length
 promising, but computationally demanding (especially the computation of Green’s
functions with sufficiently small grid point distances)
 will be performed for selected events, not whole database

Thank you

for your
attention!

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Preikestolen_Norge.jpg


Slide 2

Moment tensor inversion at
Pyhasalmi ore mine:
accuracy test using explosions
Daniela Kühn (NORSAR)
V. Vavrycuk (Academy of Sciences of the CR)

AIM 2nd annual meeting, 29-30 Sept 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

Pyhäsalmi ore mine, Finland
• microseismic monitoring:
 since January 2003
 safety of the underground
personnel
 optimisation of mining
process

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

• network:
 12 1-C geophones
+ 6 3-C geophones (ISS)
 3-D geometry
 sampling rate: < 3000 Hz

Summary

owned by Inmet Mining Co.

• events:
 1500 events /months
(including blasting)
 -2 < Mw < 1.5

Inconsistent polarities of P-wave first onset
Moment tensor inversion:
• homogeneous velocity model (as for locations)
• amplitude inversion
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling

Complexity of velocity model
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling: 2D section
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

• E3D: viscoelastic 3-D FD code (Larsen and Schultz, 1995)
• strong interaction with mining cavities: reflection,
scattering, conversion
620 m
• healing of wavefronts

Waveform modelling
synthetic seismograms
- complex waveforms
Introduction

- strong coda

- complex secondary arrivals

Waveform
modelling

- scattering effects stronger
on amplitudes than travel
times,
since
size
of
heterogeneities
(cavities,
access tunnels) same order or
smaller than wavelengths

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

 arrival times computed by
Eikonal solver still fit
(wavefronts heal quickly
after passing a cavitiy)

observed seismograms

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Imaginary
network!
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Influence of proximity to cavity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Real mine
network!

Source depth → ray path
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Ray path → onset polarity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Moment tensor inversion

Amplitude picking
direct wave scattered wave
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

first maximum amplitude = amplitude of the direct wave
direct wave

scattered wave

Summary

energy diffracted
around cavity

?

first maximum amplitude is not always the amplitude of the direct wave

Amplitude vs. waveform inversion
Amplitude inversion:
• homogeneous model of the medium
Introduction

• Green’s functions calculated using ray theory

• inversion of P-wave amplitudes (20-30 amplitudes)
Waveform
modelling

• frequencies: 250-500 Hz
 cannot take into account distortion of rays on focal sphere

Moment
tensor
inversion

 misinterpretation of amplitudes: which one is the direct wave?
Waveform inversion:

Summary

• 3-D heterogeneous model of the medium
• Green’s functions calculated using FD code

• inversion of full waveforms (15-20 waveforms)
• frequencies (at the moment): 25-100 Hz
 inversion is performed in frequency domain
 in principle same inversion algorithm as for amplitude inversion, but run
repeatedly for every frequency band (0.5 Hz steps)

Selected explosions: relocation
expl 1

expl 1

expl 3
Introduction

expl 5
Waveform
modelling

expl 3
Moment
tensor
inversion

expl 5
expl 1

Summary

expl 3

expl 5

Explosions (coords in m):
1) x=8306E y=2312N z=-1238
→ 26 m shift
3) x=8218E y=2192N z=-1352
→ 68 m shift
5) x=8214E y=2168N z=-1356
→ 59 m shift

Examples: good fit

Examples: amplitude misfit

Examples: phase misfit

Inversion results
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

explosion 1

explosion 3

explosion 5

Length of time windows

GF duration [10 ms]

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 1

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 3

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 5

nearly all solutions have high isotropic percentage
best solutions near diagonal
(length of GF time window = length of data time window)
best solutions P –wave + S-wave onset

Explosion 1
Amplitude inversion

Waveform inversion

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

DC = 7%
CLVD = -14%
ISO = 79%

Summary: seismicity in mines
structural model in mines is very complex

Introduction

large and abrupt changes in velocity at
cavities

model varies in time
Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

earthquake source is complex (single
forces, non-DC components)

small changes in source position lead to
large changes in ray propagation, rays can
be strongly curved

radiated wave field is complex
(reflected, converted, scattered waves, head
waves)

Summary: waveform inversion
In general:
• complex Green’s functions can be calculated by 3-D FD codes (accurate model needed!);
Introduction

• sensitive to time shifts due to mislocation or due to inaccurate velocity model

• frequency band of inverted waves can be easily controlled => stability analysis
Waveform
modelling

In particular:
Moment
tensor
inversion

• good network configuration => focal sphere nicely covered

• inversion algorithm:
• optimal with same window length for Green’s functions and data

Summary

• optimal with simultaneous inversion of P- and S-wave, but excluding S-wave coda
• yields high isotropic percentage, higher than amplitude inversion, almost
independently of window length
 promising, but computationally demanding (especially the computation of Green’s
functions with sufficiently small grid point distances)
 will be performed for selected events, not whole database

Thank you

for your
attention!

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Preikestolen_Norge.jpg


Slide 3

Moment tensor inversion at
Pyhasalmi ore mine:
accuracy test using explosions
Daniela Kühn (NORSAR)
V. Vavrycuk (Academy of Sciences of the CR)

AIM 2nd annual meeting, 29-30 Sept 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

Pyhäsalmi ore mine, Finland
• microseismic monitoring:
 since January 2003
 safety of the underground
personnel
 optimisation of mining
process

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

• network:
 12 1-C geophones
+ 6 3-C geophones (ISS)
 3-D geometry
 sampling rate: < 3000 Hz

Summary

owned by Inmet Mining Co.

• events:
 1500 events /months
(including blasting)
 -2 < Mw < 1.5

Inconsistent polarities of P-wave first onset
Moment tensor inversion:
• homogeneous velocity model (as for locations)
• amplitude inversion
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling

Complexity of velocity model
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling: 2D section
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

• E3D: viscoelastic 3-D FD code (Larsen and Schultz, 1995)
• strong interaction with mining cavities: reflection,
scattering, conversion
620 m
• healing of wavefronts

Waveform modelling
synthetic seismograms
- complex waveforms
Introduction

- strong coda

- complex secondary arrivals

Waveform
modelling

- scattering effects stronger
on amplitudes than travel
times,
since
size
of
heterogeneities
(cavities,
access tunnels) same order or
smaller than wavelengths

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

 arrival times computed by
Eikonal solver still fit
(wavefronts heal quickly
after passing a cavitiy)

observed seismograms

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Imaginary
network!
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Influence of proximity to cavity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Real mine
network!

Source depth → ray path
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Ray path → onset polarity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Moment tensor inversion

Amplitude picking
direct wave scattered wave
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

first maximum amplitude = amplitude of the direct wave
direct wave

scattered wave

Summary

energy diffracted
around cavity

?

first maximum amplitude is not always the amplitude of the direct wave

Amplitude vs. waveform inversion
Amplitude inversion:
• homogeneous model of the medium
Introduction

• Green’s functions calculated using ray theory

• inversion of P-wave amplitudes (20-30 amplitudes)
Waveform
modelling

• frequencies: 250-500 Hz
 cannot take into account distortion of rays on focal sphere

Moment
tensor
inversion

 misinterpretation of amplitudes: which one is the direct wave?
Waveform inversion:

Summary

• 3-D heterogeneous model of the medium
• Green’s functions calculated using FD code

• inversion of full waveforms (15-20 waveforms)
• frequencies (at the moment): 25-100 Hz
 inversion is performed in frequency domain
 in principle same inversion algorithm as for amplitude inversion, but run
repeatedly for every frequency band (0.5 Hz steps)

Selected explosions: relocation
expl 1

expl 1

expl 3
Introduction

expl 5
Waveform
modelling

expl 3
Moment
tensor
inversion

expl 5
expl 1

Summary

expl 3

expl 5

Explosions (coords in m):
1) x=8306E y=2312N z=-1238
→ 26 m shift
3) x=8218E y=2192N z=-1352
→ 68 m shift
5) x=8214E y=2168N z=-1356
→ 59 m shift

Examples: good fit

Examples: amplitude misfit

Examples: phase misfit

Inversion results
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

explosion 1

explosion 3

explosion 5

Length of time windows

GF duration [10 ms]

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 1

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 3

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 5

nearly all solutions have high isotropic percentage
best solutions near diagonal
(length of GF time window = length of data time window)
best solutions P –wave + S-wave onset

Explosion 1
Amplitude inversion

Waveform inversion

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

DC = 7%
CLVD = -14%
ISO = 79%

Summary: seismicity in mines
structural model in mines is very complex

Introduction

large and abrupt changes in velocity at
cavities

model varies in time
Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

earthquake source is complex (single
forces, non-DC components)

small changes in source position lead to
large changes in ray propagation, rays can
be strongly curved

radiated wave field is complex
(reflected, converted, scattered waves, head
waves)

Summary: waveform inversion
In general:
• complex Green’s functions can be calculated by 3-D FD codes (accurate model needed!);
Introduction

• sensitive to time shifts due to mislocation or due to inaccurate velocity model

• frequency band of inverted waves can be easily controlled => stability analysis
Waveform
modelling

In particular:
Moment
tensor
inversion

• good network configuration => focal sphere nicely covered

• inversion algorithm:
• optimal with same window length for Green’s functions and data

Summary

• optimal with simultaneous inversion of P- and S-wave, but excluding S-wave coda
• yields high isotropic percentage, higher than amplitude inversion, almost
independently of window length
 promising, but computationally demanding (especially the computation of Green’s
functions with sufficiently small grid point distances)
 will be performed for selected events, not whole database

Thank you

for your
attention!

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Preikestolen_Norge.jpg


Slide 4

Moment tensor inversion at
Pyhasalmi ore mine:
accuracy test using explosions
Daniela Kühn (NORSAR)
V. Vavrycuk (Academy of Sciences of the CR)

AIM 2nd annual meeting, 29-30 Sept 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

Pyhäsalmi ore mine, Finland
• microseismic monitoring:
 since January 2003
 safety of the underground
personnel
 optimisation of mining
process

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

• network:
 12 1-C geophones
+ 6 3-C geophones (ISS)
 3-D geometry
 sampling rate: < 3000 Hz

Summary

owned by Inmet Mining Co.

• events:
 1500 events /months
(including blasting)
 -2 < Mw < 1.5

Inconsistent polarities of P-wave first onset
Moment tensor inversion:
• homogeneous velocity model (as for locations)
• amplitude inversion
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling

Complexity of velocity model
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling: 2D section
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

• E3D: viscoelastic 3-D FD code (Larsen and Schultz, 1995)
• strong interaction with mining cavities: reflection,
scattering, conversion
620 m
• healing of wavefronts

Waveform modelling
synthetic seismograms
- complex waveforms
Introduction

- strong coda

- complex secondary arrivals

Waveform
modelling

- scattering effects stronger
on amplitudes than travel
times,
since
size
of
heterogeneities
(cavities,
access tunnels) same order or
smaller than wavelengths

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

 arrival times computed by
Eikonal solver still fit
(wavefronts heal quickly
after passing a cavitiy)

observed seismograms

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Imaginary
network!
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Influence of proximity to cavity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Real mine
network!

Source depth → ray path
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Ray path → onset polarity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Moment tensor inversion

Amplitude picking
direct wave scattered wave
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

first maximum amplitude = amplitude of the direct wave
direct wave

scattered wave

Summary

energy diffracted
around cavity

?

first maximum amplitude is not always the amplitude of the direct wave

Amplitude vs. waveform inversion
Amplitude inversion:
• homogeneous model of the medium
Introduction

• Green’s functions calculated using ray theory

• inversion of P-wave amplitudes (20-30 amplitudes)
Waveform
modelling

• frequencies: 250-500 Hz
 cannot take into account distortion of rays on focal sphere

Moment
tensor
inversion

 misinterpretation of amplitudes: which one is the direct wave?
Waveform inversion:

Summary

• 3-D heterogeneous model of the medium
• Green’s functions calculated using FD code

• inversion of full waveforms (15-20 waveforms)
• frequencies (at the moment): 25-100 Hz
 inversion is performed in frequency domain
 in principle same inversion algorithm as for amplitude inversion, but run
repeatedly for every frequency band (0.5 Hz steps)

Selected explosions: relocation
expl 1

expl 1

expl 3
Introduction

expl 5
Waveform
modelling

expl 3
Moment
tensor
inversion

expl 5
expl 1

Summary

expl 3

expl 5

Explosions (coords in m):
1) x=8306E y=2312N z=-1238
→ 26 m shift
3) x=8218E y=2192N z=-1352
→ 68 m shift
5) x=8214E y=2168N z=-1356
→ 59 m shift

Examples: good fit

Examples: amplitude misfit

Examples: phase misfit

Inversion results
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

explosion 1

explosion 3

explosion 5

Length of time windows

GF duration [10 ms]

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 1

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 3

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 5

nearly all solutions have high isotropic percentage
best solutions near diagonal
(length of GF time window = length of data time window)
best solutions P –wave + S-wave onset

Explosion 1
Amplitude inversion

Waveform inversion

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

DC = 7%
CLVD = -14%
ISO = 79%

Summary: seismicity in mines
structural model in mines is very complex

Introduction

large and abrupt changes in velocity at
cavities

model varies in time
Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

earthquake source is complex (single
forces, non-DC components)

small changes in source position lead to
large changes in ray propagation, rays can
be strongly curved

radiated wave field is complex
(reflected, converted, scattered waves, head
waves)

Summary: waveform inversion
In general:
• complex Green’s functions can be calculated by 3-D FD codes (accurate model needed!);
Introduction

• sensitive to time shifts due to mislocation or due to inaccurate velocity model

• frequency band of inverted waves can be easily controlled => stability analysis
Waveform
modelling

In particular:
Moment
tensor
inversion

• good network configuration => focal sphere nicely covered

• inversion algorithm:
• optimal with same window length for Green’s functions and data

Summary

• optimal with simultaneous inversion of P- and S-wave, but excluding S-wave coda
• yields high isotropic percentage, higher than amplitude inversion, almost
independently of window length
 promising, but computationally demanding (especially the computation of Green’s
functions with sufficiently small grid point distances)
 will be performed for selected events, not whole database

Thank you

for your
attention!

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Preikestolen_Norge.jpg


Slide 5

Moment tensor inversion at
Pyhasalmi ore mine:
accuracy test using explosions
Daniela Kühn (NORSAR)
V. Vavrycuk (Academy of Sciences of the CR)

AIM 2nd annual meeting, 29-30 Sept 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

Pyhäsalmi ore mine, Finland
• microseismic monitoring:
 since January 2003
 safety of the underground
personnel
 optimisation of mining
process

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

• network:
 12 1-C geophones
+ 6 3-C geophones (ISS)
 3-D geometry
 sampling rate: < 3000 Hz

Summary

owned by Inmet Mining Co.

• events:
 1500 events /months
(including blasting)
 -2 < Mw < 1.5

Inconsistent polarities of P-wave first onset
Moment tensor inversion:
• homogeneous velocity model (as for locations)
• amplitude inversion
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling

Complexity of velocity model
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling: 2D section
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

• E3D: viscoelastic 3-D FD code (Larsen and Schultz, 1995)
• strong interaction with mining cavities: reflection,
scattering, conversion
620 m
• healing of wavefronts

Waveform modelling
synthetic seismograms
- complex waveforms
Introduction

- strong coda

- complex secondary arrivals

Waveform
modelling

- scattering effects stronger
on amplitudes than travel
times,
since
size
of
heterogeneities
(cavities,
access tunnels) same order or
smaller than wavelengths

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

 arrival times computed by
Eikonal solver still fit
(wavefronts heal quickly
after passing a cavitiy)

observed seismograms

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Imaginary
network!
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Influence of proximity to cavity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Real mine
network!

Source depth → ray path
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Ray path → onset polarity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Moment tensor inversion

Amplitude picking
direct wave scattered wave
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

first maximum amplitude = amplitude of the direct wave
direct wave

scattered wave

Summary

energy diffracted
around cavity

?

first maximum amplitude is not always the amplitude of the direct wave

Amplitude vs. waveform inversion
Amplitude inversion:
• homogeneous model of the medium
Introduction

• Green’s functions calculated using ray theory

• inversion of P-wave amplitudes (20-30 amplitudes)
Waveform
modelling

• frequencies: 250-500 Hz
 cannot take into account distortion of rays on focal sphere

Moment
tensor
inversion

 misinterpretation of amplitudes: which one is the direct wave?
Waveform inversion:

Summary

• 3-D heterogeneous model of the medium
• Green’s functions calculated using FD code

• inversion of full waveforms (15-20 waveforms)
• frequencies (at the moment): 25-100 Hz
 inversion is performed in frequency domain
 in principle same inversion algorithm as for amplitude inversion, but run
repeatedly for every frequency band (0.5 Hz steps)

Selected explosions: relocation
expl 1

expl 1

expl 3
Introduction

expl 5
Waveform
modelling

expl 3
Moment
tensor
inversion

expl 5
expl 1

Summary

expl 3

expl 5

Explosions (coords in m):
1) x=8306E y=2312N z=-1238
→ 26 m shift
3) x=8218E y=2192N z=-1352
→ 68 m shift
5) x=8214E y=2168N z=-1356
→ 59 m shift

Examples: good fit

Examples: amplitude misfit

Examples: phase misfit

Inversion results
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

explosion 1

explosion 3

explosion 5

Length of time windows

GF duration [10 ms]

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 1

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 3

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 5

nearly all solutions have high isotropic percentage
best solutions near diagonal
(length of GF time window = length of data time window)
best solutions P –wave + S-wave onset

Explosion 1
Amplitude inversion

Waveform inversion

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

DC = 7%
CLVD = -14%
ISO = 79%

Summary: seismicity in mines
structural model in mines is very complex

Introduction

large and abrupt changes in velocity at
cavities

model varies in time
Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

earthquake source is complex (single
forces, non-DC components)

small changes in source position lead to
large changes in ray propagation, rays can
be strongly curved

radiated wave field is complex
(reflected, converted, scattered waves, head
waves)

Summary: waveform inversion
In general:
• complex Green’s functions can be calculated by 3-D FD codes (accurate model needed!);
Introduction

• sensitive to time shifts due to mislocation or due to inaccurate velocity model

• frequency band of inverted waves can be easily controlled => stability analysis
Waveform
modelling

In particular:
Moment
tensor
inversion

• good network configuration => focal sphere nicely covered

• inversion algorithm:
• optimal with same window length for Green’s functions and data

Summary

• optimal with simultaneous inversion of P- and S-wave, but excluding S-wave coda
• yields high isotropic percentage, higher than amplitude inversion, almost
independently of window length
 promising, but computationally demanding (especially the computation of Green’s
functions with sufficiently small grid point distances)
 will be performed for selected events, not whole database

Thank you

for your
attention!

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Preikestolen_Norge.jpg


Slide 6

Moment tensor inversion at
Pyhasalmi ore mine:
accuracy test using explosions
Daniela Kühn (NORSAR)
V. Vavrycuk (Academy of Sciences of the CR)

AIM 2nd annual meeting, 29-30 Sept 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

Pyhäsalmi ore mine, Finland
• microseismic monitoring:
 since January 2003
 safety of the underground
personnel
 optimisation of mining
process

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

• network:
 12 1-C geophones
+ 6 3-C geophones (ISS)
 3-D geometry
 sampling rate: < 3000 Hz

Summary

owned by Inmet Mining Co.

• events:
 1500 events /months
(including blasting)
 -2 < Mw < 1.5

Inconsistent polarities of P-wave first onset
Moment tensor inversion:
• homogeneous velocity model (as for locations)
• amplitude inversion
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling

Complexity of velocity model
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling: 2D section
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

• E3D: viscoelastic 3-D FD code (Larsen and Schultz, 1995)
• strong interaction with mining cavities: reflection,
scattering, conversion
620 m
• healing of wavefronts

Waveform modelling
synthetic seismograms
- complex waveforms
Introduction

- strong coda

- complex secondary arrivals

Waveform
modelling

- scattering effects stronger
on amplitudes than travel
times,
since
size
of
heterogeneities
(cavities,
access tunnels) same order or
smaller than wavelengths

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

 arrival times computed by
Eikonal solver still fit
(wavefronts heal quickly
after passing a cavitiy)

observed seismograms

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Imaginary
network!
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Influence of proximity to cavity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Real mine
network!

Source depth → ray path
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Ray path → onset polarity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Moment tensor inversion

Amplitude picking
direct wave scattered wave
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

first maximum amplitude = amplitude of the direct wave
direct wave

scattered wave

Summary

energy diffracted
around cavity

?

first maximum amplitude is not always the amplitude of the direct wave

Amplitude vs. waveform inversion
Amplitude inversion:
• homogeneous model of the medium
Introduction

• Green’s functions calculated using ray theory

• inversion of P-wave amplitudes (20-30 amplitudes)
Waveform
modelling

• frequencies: 250-500 Hz
 cannot take into account distortion of rays on focal sphere

Moment
tensor
inversion

 misinterpretation of amplitudes: which one is the direct wave?
Waveform inversion:

Summary

• 3-D heterogeneous model of the medium
• Green’s functions calculated using FD code

• inversion of full waveforms (15-20 waveforms)
• frequencies (at the moment): 25-100 Hz
 inversion is performed in frequency domain
 in principle same inversion algorithm as for amplitude inversion, but run
repeatedly for every frequency band (0.5 Hz steps)

Selected explosions: relocation
expl 1

expl 1

expl 3
Introduction

expl 5
Waveform
modelling

expl 3
Moment
tensor
inversion

expl 5
expl 1

Summary

expl 3

expl 5

Explosions (coords in m):
1) x=8306E y=2312N z=-1238
→ 26 m shift
3) x=8218E y=2192N z=-1352
→ 68 m shift
5) x=8214E y=2168N z=-1356
→ 59 m shift

Examples: good fit

Examples: amplitude misfit

Examples: phase misfit

Inversion results
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

explosion 1

explosion 3

explosion 5

Length of time windows

GF duration [10 ms]

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 1

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 3

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 5

nearly all solutions have high isotropic percentage
best solutions near diagonal
(length of GF time window = length of data time window)
best solutions P –wave + S-wave onset

Explosion 1
Amplitude inversion

Waveform inversion

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

DC = 7%
CLVD = -14%
ISO = 79%

Summary: seismicity in mines
structural model in mines is very complex

Introduction

large and abrupt changes in velocity at
cavities

model varies in time
Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

earthquake source is complex (single
forces, non-DC components)

small changes in source position lead to
large changes in ray propagation, rays can
be strongly curved

radiated wave field is complex
(reflected, converted, scattered waves, head
waves)

Summary: waveform inversion
In general:
• complex Green’s functions can be calculated by 3-D FD codes (accurate model needed!);
Introduction

• sensitive to time shifts due to mislocation or due to inaccurate velocity model

• frequency band of inverted waves can be easily controlled => stability analysis
Waveform
modelling

In particular:
Moment
tensor
inversion

• good network configuration => focal sphere nicely covered

• inversion algorithm:
• optimal with same window length for Green’s functions and data

Summary

• optimal with simultaneous inversion of P- and S-wave, but excluding S-wave coda
• yields high isotropic percentage, higher than amplitude inversion, almost
independently of window length
 promising, but computationally demanding (especially the computation of Green’s
functions with sufficiently small grid point distances)
 will be performed for selected events, not whole database

Thank you

for your
attention!

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Preikestolen_Norge.jpg


Slide 7

Moment tensor inversion at
Pyhasalmi ore mine:
accuracy test using explosions
Daniela Kühn (NORSAR)
V. Vavrycuk (Academy of Sciences of the CR)

AIM 2nd annual meeting, 29-30 Sept 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

Pyhäsalmi ore mine, Finland
• microseismic monitoring:
 since January 2003
 safety of the underground
personnel
 optimisation of mining
process

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

• network:
 12 1-C geophones
+ 6 3-C geophones (ISS)
 3-D geometry
 sampling rate: < 3000 Hz

Summary

owned by Inmet Mining Co.

• events:
 1500 events /months
(including blasting)
 -2 < Mw < 1.5

Inconsistent polarities of P-wave first onset
Moment tensor inversion:
• homogeneous velocity model (as for locations)
• amplitude inversion
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling

Complexity of velocity model
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling: 2D section
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

• E3D: viscoelastic 3-D FD code (Larsen and Schultz, 1995)
• strong interaction with mining cavities: reflection,
scattering, conversion
620 m
• healing of wavefronts

Waveform modelling
synthetic seismograms
- complex waveforms
Introduction

- strong coda

- complex secondary arrivals

Waveform
modelling

- scattering effects stronger
on amplitudes than travel
times,
since
size
of
heterogeneities
(cavities,
access tunnels) same order or
smaller than wavelengths

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

 arrival times computed by
Eikonal solver still fit
(wavefronts heal quickly
after passing a cavitiy)

observed seismograms

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Imaginary
network!
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Influence of proximity to cavity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Real mine
network!

Source depth → ray path
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Ray path → onset polarity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Moment tensor inversion

Amplitude picking
direct wave scattered wave
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

first maximum amplitude = amplitude of the direct wave
direct wave

scattered wave

Summary

energy diffracted
around cavity

?

first maximum amplitude is not always the amplitude of the direct wave

Amplitude vs. waveform inversion
Amplitude inversion:
• homogeneous model of the medium
Introduction

• Green’s functions calculated using ray theory

• inversion of P-wave amplitudes (20-30 amplitudes)
Waveform
modelling

• frequencies: 250-500 Hz
 cannot take into account distortion of rays on focal sphere

Moment
tensor
inversion

 misinterpretation of amplitudes: which one is the direct wave?
Waveform inversion:

Summary

• 3-D heterogeneous model of the medium
• Green’s functions calculated using FD code

• inversion of full waveforms (15-20 waveforms)
• frequencies (at the moment): 25-100 Hz
 inversion is performed in frequency domain
 in principle same inversion algorithm as for amplitude inversion, but run
repeatedly for every frequency band (0.5 Hz steps)

Selected explosions: relocation
expl 1

expl 1

expl 3
Introduction

expl 5
Waveform
modelling

expl 3
Moment
tensor
inversion

expl 5
expl 1

Summary

expl 3

expl 5

Explosions (coords in m):
1) x=8306E y=2312N z=-1238
→ 26 m shift
3) x=8218E y=2192N z=-1352
→ 68 m shift
5) x=8214E y=2168N z=-1356
→ 59 m shift

Examples: good fit

Examples: amplitude misfit

Examples: phase misfit

Inversion results
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

explosion 1

explosion 3

explosion 5

Length of time windows

GF duration [10 ms]

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 1

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 3

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 5

nearly all solutions have high isotropic percentage
best solutions near diagonal
(length of GF time window = length of data time window)
best solutions P –wave + S-wave onset

Explosion 1
Amplitude inversion

Waveform inversion

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

DC = 7%
CLVD = -14%
ISO = 79%

Summary: seismicity in mines
structural model in mines is very complex

Introduction

large and abrupt changes in velocity at
cavities

model varies in time
Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

earthquake source is complex (single
forces, non-DC components)

small changes in source position lead to
large changes in ray propagation, rays can
be strongly curved

radiated wave field is complex
(reflected, converted, scattered waves, head
waves)

Summary: waveform inversion
In general:
• complex Green’s functions can be calculated by 3-D FD codes (accurate model needed!);
Introduction

• sensitive to time shifts due to mislocation or due to inaccurate velocity model

• frequency band of inverted waves can be easily controlled => stability analysis
Waveform
modelling

In particular:
Moment
tensor
inversion

• good network configuration => focal sphere nicely covered

• inversion algorithm:
• optimal with same window length for Green’s functions and data

Summary

• optimal with simultaneous inversion of P- and S-wave, but excluding S-wave coda
• yields high isotropic percentage, higher than amplitude inversion, almost
independently of window length
 promising, but computationally demanding (especially the computation of Green’s
functions with sufficiently small grid point distances)
 will be performed for selected events, not whole database

Thank you

for your
attention!

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Preikestolen_Norge.jpg


Slide 8

Moment tensor inversion at
Pyhasalmi ore mine:
accuracy test using explosions
Daniela Kühn (NORSAR)
V. Vavrycuk (Academy of Sciences of the CR)

AIM 2nd annual meeting, 29-30 Sept 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

Pyhäsalmi ore mine, Finland
• microseismic monitoring:
 since January 2003
 safety of the underground
personnel
 optimisation of mining
process

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

• network:
 12 1-C geophones
+ 6 3-C geophones (ISS)
 3-D geometry
 sampling rate: < 3000 Hz

Summary

owned by Inmet Mining Co.

• events:
 1500 events /months
(including blasting)
 -2 < Mw < 1.5

Inconsistent polarities of P-wave first onset
Moment tensor inversion:
• homogeneous velocity model (as for locations)
• amplitude inversion
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling

Complexity of velocity model
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling: 2D section
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

• E3D: viscoelastic 3-D FD code (Larsen and Schultz, 1995)
• strong interaction with mining cavities: reflection,
scattering, conversion
620 m
• healing of wavefronts

Waveform modelling
synthetic seismograms
- complex waveforms
Introduction

- strong coda

- complex secondary arrivals

Waveform
modelling

- scattering effects stronger
on amplitudes than travel
times,
since
size
of
heterogeneities
(cavities,
access tunnels) same order or
smaller than wavelengths

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

 arrival times computed by
Eikonal solver still fit
(wavefronts heal quickly
after passing a cavitiy)

observed seismograms

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Imaginary
network!
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Influence of proximity to cavity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Real mine
network!

Source depth → ray path
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Ray path → onset polarity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Moment tensor inversion

Amplitude picking
direct wave scattered wave
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

first maximum amplitude = amplitude of the direct wave
direct wave

scattered wave

Summary

energy diffracted
around cavity

?

first maximum amplitude is not always the amplitude of the direct wave

Amplitude vs. waveform inversion
Amplitude inversion:
• homogeneous model of the medium
Introduction

• Green’s functions calculated using ray theory

• inversion of P-wave amplitudes (20-30 amplitudes)
Waveform
modelling

• frequencies: 250-500 Hz
 cannot take into account distortion of rays on focal sphere

Moment
tensor
inversion

 misinterpretation of amplitudes: which one is the direct wave?
Waveform inversion:

Summary

• 3-D heterogeneous model of the medium
• Green’s functions calculated using FD code

• inversion of full waveforms (15-20 waveforms)
• frequencies (at the moment): 25-100 Hz
 inversion is performed in frequency domain
 in principle same inversion algorithm as for amplitude inversion, but run
repeatedly for every frequency band (0.5 Hz steps)

Selected explosions: relocation
expl 1

expl 1

expl 3
Introduction

expl 5
Waveform
modelling

expl 3
Moment
tensor
inversion

expl 5
expl 1

Summary

expl 3

expl 5

Explosions (coords in m):
1) x=8306E y=2312N z=-1238
→ 26 m shift
3) x=8218E y=2192N z=-1352
→ 68 m shift
5) x=8214E y=2168N z=-1356
→ 59 m shift

Examples: good fit

Examples: amplitude misfit

Examples: phase misfit

Inversion results
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

explosion 1

explosion 3

explosion 5

Length of time windows

GF duration [10 ms]

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 1

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 3

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 5

nearly all solutions have high isotropic percentage
best solutions near diagonal
(length of GF time window = length of data time window)
best solutions P –wave + S-wave onset

Explosion 1
Amplitude inversion

Waveform inversion

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

DC = 7%
CLVD = -14%
ISO = 79%

Summary: seismicity in mines
structural model in mines is very complex

Introduction

large and abrupt changes in velocity at
cavities

model varies in time
Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

earthquake source is complex (single
forces, non-DC components)

small changes in source position lead to
large changes in ray propagation, rays can
be strongly curved

radiated wave field is complex
(reflected, converted, scattered waves, head
waves)

Summary: waveform inversion
In general:
• complex Green’s functions can be calculated by 3-D FD codes (accurate model needed!);
Introduction

• sensitive to time shifts due to mislocation or due to inaccurate velocity model

• frequency band of inverted waves can be easily controlled => stability analysis
Waveform
modelling

In particular:
Moment
tensor
inversion

• good network configuration => focal sphere nicely covered

• inversion algorithm:
• optimal with same window length for Green’s functions and data

Summary

• optimal with simultaneous inversion of P- and S-wave, but excluding S-wave coda
• yields high isotropic percentage, higher than amplitude inversion, almost
independently of window length
 promising, but computationally demanding (especially the computation of Green’s
functions with sufficiently small grid point distances)
 will be performed for selected events, not whole database

Thank you

for your
attention!

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Preikestolen_Norge.jpg


Slide 9

Moment tensor inversion at
Pyhasalmi ore mine:
accuracy test using explosions
Daniela Kühn (NORSAR)
V. Vavrycuk (Academy of Sciences of the CR)

AIM 2nd annual meeting, 29-30 Sept 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

Pyhäsalmi ore mine, Finland
• microseismic monitoring:
 since January 2003
 safety of the underground
personnel
 optimisation of mining
process

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

• network:
 12 1-C geophones
+ 6 3-C geophones (ISS)
 3-D geometry
 sampling rate: < 3000 Hz

Summary

owned by Inmet Mining Co.

• events:
 1500 events /months
(including blasting)
 -2 < Mw < 1.5

Inconsistent polarities of P-wave first onset
Moment tensor inversion:
• homogeneous velocity model (as for locations)
• amplitude inversion
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling

Complexity of velocity model
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling: 2D section
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

• E3D: viscoelastic 3-D FD code (Larsen and Schultz, 1995)
• strong interaction with mining cavities: reflection,
scattering, conversion
620 m
• healing of wavefronts

Waveform modelling
synthetic seismograms
- complex waveforms
Introduction

- strong coda

- complex secondary arrivals

Waveform
modelling

- scattering effects stronger
on amplitudes than travel
times,
since
size
of
heterogeneities
(cavities,
access tunnels) same order or
smaller than wavelengths

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

 arrival times computed by
Eikonal solver still fit
(wavefronts heal quickly
after passing a cavitiy)

observed seismograms

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Imaginary
network!
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Influence of proximity to cavity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Real mine
network!

Source depth → ray path
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Ray path → onset polarity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Moment tensor inversion

Amplitude picking
direct wave scattered wave
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

first maximum amplitude = amplitude of the direct wave
direct wave

scattered wave

Summary

energy diffracted
around cavity

?

first maximum amplitude is not always the amplitude of the direct wave

Amplitude vs. waveform inversion
Amplitude inversion:
• homogeneous model of the medium
Introduction

• Green’s functions calculated using ray theory

• inversion of P-wave amplitudes (20-30 amplitudes)
Waveform
modelling

• frequencies: 250-500 Hz
 cannot take into account distortion of rays on focal sphere

Moment
tensor
inversion

 misinterpretation of amplitudes: which one is the direct wave?
Waveform inversion:

Summary

• 3-D heterogeneous model of the medium
• Green’s functions calculated using FD code

• inversion of full waveforms (15-20 waveforms)
• frequencies (at the moment): 25-100 Hz
 inversion is performed in frequency domain
 in principle same inversion algorithm as for amplitude inversion, but run
repeatedly for every frequency band (0.5 Hz steps)

Selected explosions: relocation
expl 1

expl 1

expl 3
Introduction

expl 5
Waveform
modelling

expl 3
Moment
tensor
inversion

expl 5
expl 1

Summary

expl 3

expl 5

Explosions (coords in m):
1) x=8306E y=2312N z=-1238
→ 26 m shift
3) x=8218E y=2192N z=-1352
→ 68 m shift
5) x=8214E y=2168N z=-1356
→ 59 m shift

Examples: good fit

Examples: amplitude misfit

Examples: phase misfit

Inversion results
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

explosion 1

explosion 3

explosion 5

Length of time windows

GF duration [10 ms]

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 1

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 3

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 5

nearly all solutions have high isotropic percentage
best solutions near diagonal
(length of GF time window = length of data time window)
best solutions P –wave + S-wave onset

Explosion 1
Amplitude inversion

Waveform inversion

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

DC = 7%
CLVD = -14%
ISO = 79%

Summary: seismicity in mines
structural model in mines is very complex

Introduction

large and abrupt changes in velocity at
cavities

model varies in time
Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

earthquake source is complex (single
forces, non-DC components)

small changes in source position lead to
large changes in ray propagation, rays can
be strongly curved

radiated wave field is complex
(reflected, converted, scattered waves, head
waves)

Summary: waveform inversion
In general:
• complex Green’s functions can be calculated by 3-D FD codes (accurate model needed!);
Introduction

• sensitive to time shifts due to mislocation or due to inaccurate velocity model

• frequency band of inverted waves can be easily controlled => stability analysis
Waveform
modelling

In particular:
Moment
tensor
inversion

• good network configuration => focal sphere nicely covered

• inversion algorithm:
• optimal with same window length for Green’s functions and data

Summary

• optimal with simultaneous inversion of P- and S-wave, but excluding S-wave coda
• yields high isotropic percentage, higher than amplitude inversion, almost
independently of window length
 promising, but computationally demanding (especially the computation of Green’s
functions with sufficiently small grid point distances)
 will be performed for selected events, not whole database

Thank you

for your
attention!

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Preikestolen_Norge.jpg


Slide 10

Moment tensor inversion at
Pyhasalmi ore mine:
accuracy test using explosions
Daniela Kühn (NORSAR)
V. Vavrycuk (Academy of Sciences of the CR)

AIM 2nd annual meeting, 29-30 Sept 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

Pyhäsalmi ore mine, Finland
• microseismic monitoring:
 since January 2003
 safety of the underground
personnel
 optimisation of mining
process

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

• network:
 12 1-C geophones
+ 6 3-C geophones (ISS)
 3-D geometry
 sampling rate: < 3000 Hz

Summary

owned by Inmet Mining Co.

• events:
 1500 events /months
(including blasting)
 -2 < Mw < 1.5

Inconsistent polarities of P-wave first onset
Moment tensor inversion:
• homogeneous velocity model (as for locations)
• amplitude inversion
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling

Complexity of velocity model
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling: 2D section
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

• E3D: viscoelastic 3-D FD code (Larsen and Schultz, 1995)
• strong interaction with mining cavities: reflection,
scattering, conversion
620 m
• healing of wavefronts

Waveform modelling
synthetic seismograms
- complex waveforms
Introduction

- strong coda

- complex secondary arrivals

Waveform
modelling

- scattering effects stronger
on amplitudes than travel
times,
since
size
of
heterogeneities
(cavities,
access tunnels) same order or
smaller than wavelengths

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

 arrival times computed by
Eikonal solver still fit
(wavefronts heal quickly
after passing a cavitiy)

observed seismograms

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Imaginary
network!
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Influence of proximity to cavity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Real mine
network!

Source depth → ray path
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Ray path → onset polarity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Moment tensor inversion

Amplitude picking
direct wave scattered wave
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

first maximum amplitude = amplitude of the direct wave
direct wave

scattered wave

Summary

energy diffracted
around cavity

?

first maximum amplitude is not always the amplitude of the direct wave

Amplitude vs. waveform inversion
Amplitude inversion:
• homogeneous model of the medium
Introduction

• Green’s functions calculated using ray theory

• inversion of P-wave amplitudes (20-30 amplitudes)
Waveform
modelling

• frequencies: 250-500 Hz
 cannot take into account distortion of rays on focal sphere

Moment
tensor
inversion

 misinterpretation of amplitudes: which one is the direct wave?
Waveform inversion:

Summary

• 3-D heterogeneous model of the medium
• Green’s functions calculated using FD code

• inversion of full waveforms (15-20 waveforms)
• frequencies (at the moment): 25-100 Hz
 inversion is performed in frequency domain
 in principle same inversion algorithm as for amplitude inversion, but run
repeatedly for every frequency band (0.5 Hz steps)

Selected explosions: relocation
expl 1

expl 1

expl 3
Introduction

expl 5
Waveform
modelling

expl 3
Moment
tensor
inversion

expl 5
expl 1

Summary

expl 3

expl 5

Explosions (coords in m):
1) x=8306E y=2312N z=-1238
→ 26 m shift
3) x=8218E y=2192N z=-1352
→ 68 m shift
5) x=8214E y=2168N z=-1356
→ 59 m shift

Examples: good fit

Examples: amplitude misfit

Examples: phase misfit

Inversion results
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

explosion 1

explosion 3

explosion 5

Length of time windows

GF duration [10 ms]

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 1

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 3

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 5

nearly all solutions have high isotropic percentage
best solutions near diagonal
(length of GF time window = length of data time window)
best solutions P –wave + S-wave onset

Explosion 1
Amplitude inversion

Waveform inversion

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

DC = 7%
CLVD = -14%
ISO = 79%

Summary: seismicity in mines
structural model in mines is very complex

Introduction

large and abrupt changes in velocity at
cavities

model varies in time
Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

earthquake source is complex (single
forces, non-DC components)

small changes in source position lead to
large changes in ray propagation, rays can
be strongly curved

radiated wave field is complex
(reflected, converted, scattered waves, head
waves)

Summary: waveform inversion
In general:
• complex Green’s functions can be calculated by 3-D FD codes (accurate model needed!);
Introduction

• sensitive to time shifts due to mislocation or due to inaccurate velocity model

• frequency band of inverted waves can be easily controlled => stability analysis
Waveform
modelling

In particular:
Moment
tensor
inversion

• good network configuration => focal sphere nicely covered

• inversion algorithm:
• optimal with same window length for Green’s functions and data

Summary

• optimal with simultaneous inversion of P- and S-wave, but excluding S-wave coda
• yields high isotropic percentage, higher than amplitude inversion, almost
independently of window length
 promising, but computationally demanding (especially the computation of Green’s
functions with sufficiently small grid point distances)
 will be performed for selected events, not whole database

Thank you

for your
attention!

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Preikestolen_Norge.jpg


Slide 11

Moment tensor inversion at
Pyhasalmi ore mine:
accuracy test using explosions
Daniela Kühn (NORSAR)
V. Vavrycuk (Academy of Sciences of the CR)

AIM 2nd annual meeting, 29-30 Sept 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

Pyhäsalmi ore mine, Finland
• microseismic monitoring:
 since January 2003
 safety of the underground
personnel
 optimisation of mining
process

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

• network:
 12 1-C geophones
+ 6 3-C geophones (ISS)
 3-D geometry
 sampling rate: < 3000 Hz

Summary

owned by Inmet Mining Co.

• events:
 1500 events /months
(including blasting)
 -2 < Mw < 1.5

Inconsistent polarities of P-wave first onset
Moment tensor inversion:
• homogeneous velocity model (as for locations)
• amplitude inversion
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling

Complexity of velocity model
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling: 2D section
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

• E3D: viscoelastic 3-D FD code (Larsen and Schultz, 1995)
• strong interaction with mining cavities: reflection,
scattering, conversion
620 m
• healing of wavefronts

Waveform modelling
synthetic seismograms
- complex waveforms
Introduction

- strong coda

- complex secondary arrivals

Waveform
modelling

- scattering effects stronger
on amplitudes than travel
times,
since
size
of
heterogeneities
(cavities,
access tunnels) same order or
smaller than wavelengths

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

 arrival times computed by
Eikonal solver still fit
(wavefronts heal quickly
after passing a cavitiy)

observed seismograms

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Imaginary
network!
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Influence of proximity to cavity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Real mine
network!

Source depth → ray path
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Ray path → onset polarity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Moment tensor inversion

Amplitude picking
direct wave scattered wave
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

first maximum amplitude = amplitude of the direct wave
direct wave

scattered wave

Summary

energy diffracted
around cavity

?

first maximum amplitude is not always the amplitude of the direct wave

Amplitude vs. waveform inversion
Amplitude inversion:
• homogeneous model of the medium
Introduction

• Green’s functions calculated using ray theory

• inversion of P-wave amplitudes (20-30 amplitudes)
Waveform
modelling

• frequencies: 250-500 Hz
 cannot take into account distortion of rays on focal sphere

Moment
tensor
inversion

 misinterpretation of amplitudes: which one is the direct wave?
Waveform inversion:

Summary

• 3-D heterogeneous model of the medium
• Green’s functions calculated using FD code

• inversion of full waveforms (15-20 waveforms)
• frequencies (at the moment): 25-100 Hz
 inversion is performed in frequency domain
 in principle same inversion algorithm as for amplitude inversion, but run
repeatedly for every frequency band (0.5 Hz steps)

Selected explosions: relocation
expl 1

expl 1

expl 3
Introduction

expl 5
Waveform
modelling

expl 3
Moment
tensor
inversion

expl 5
expl 1

Summary

expl 3

expl 5

Explosions (coords in m):
1) x=8306E y=2312N z=-1238
→ 26 m shift
3) x=8218E y=2192N z=-1352
→ 68 m shift
5) x=8214E y=2168N z=-1356
→ 59 m shift

Examples: good fit

Examples: amplitude misfit

Examples: phase misfit

Inversion results
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

explosion 1

explosion 3

explosion 5

Length of time windows

GF duration [10 ms]

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 1

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 3

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 5

nearly all solutions have high isotropic percentage
best solutions near diagonal
(length of GF time window = length of data time window)
best solutions P –wave + S-wave onset

Explosion 1
Amplitude inversion

Waveform inversion

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

DC = 7%
CLVD = -14%
ISO = 79%

Summary: seismicity in mines
structural model in mines is very complex

Introduction

large and abrupt changes in velocity at
cavities

model varies in time
Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

earthquake source is complex (single
forces, non-DC components)

small changes in source position lead to
large changes in ray propagation, rays can
be strongly curved

radiated wave field is complex
(reflected, converted, scattered waves, head
waves)

Summary: waveform inversion
In general:
• complex Green’s functions can be calculated by 3-D FD codes (accurate model needed!);
Introduction

• sensitive to time shifts due to mislocation or due to inaccurate velocity model

• frequency band of inverted waves can be easily controlled => stability analysis
Waveform
modelling

In particular:
Moment
tensor
inversion

• good network configuration => focal sphere nicely covered

• inversion algorithm:
• optimal with same window length for Green’s functions and data

Summary

• optimal with simultaneous inversion of P- and S-wave, but excluding S-wave coda
• yields high isotropic percentage, higher than amplitude inversion, almost
independently of window length
 promising, but computationally demanding (especially the computation of Green’s
functions with sufficiently small grid point distances)
 will be performed for selected events, not whole database

Thank you

for your
attention!

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Preikestolen_Norge.jpg


Slide 12

Moment tensor inversion at
Pyhasalmi ore mine:
accuracy test using explosions
Daniela Kühn (NORSAR)
V. Vavrycuk (Academy of Sciences of the CR)

AIM 2nd annual meeting, 29-30 Sept 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

Pyhäsalmi ore mine, Finland
• microseismic monitoring:
 since January 2003
 safety of the underground
personnel
 optimisation of mining
process

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

• network:
 12 1-C geophones
+ 6 3-C geophones (ISS)
 3-D geometry
 sampling rate: < 3000 Hz

Summary

owned by Inmet Mining Co.

• events:
 1500 events /months
(including blasting)
 -2 < Mw < 1.5

Inconsistent polarities of P-wave first onset
Moment tensor inversion:
• homogeneous velocity model (as for locations)
• amplitude inversion
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling

Complexity of velocity model
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling: 2D section
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

• E3D: viscoelastic 3-D FD code (Larsen and Schultz, 1995)
• strong interaction with mining cavities: reflection,
scattering, conversion
620 m
• healing of wavefronts

Waveform modelling
synthetic seismograms
- complex waveforms
Introduction

- strong coda

- complex secondary arrivals

Waveform
modelling

- scattering effects stronger
on amplitudes than travel
times,
since
size
of
heterogeneities
(cavities,
access tunnels) same order or
smaller than wavelengths

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

 arrival times computed by
Eikonal solver still fit
(wavefronts heal quickly
after passing a cavitiy)

observed seismograms

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Imaginary
network!
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Influence of proximity to cavity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Real mine
network!

Source depth → ray path
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Ray path → onset polarity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Moment tensor inversion

Amplitude picking
direct wave scattered wave
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

first maximum amplitude = amplitude of the direct wave
direct wave

scattered wave

Summary

energy diffracted
around cavity

?

first maximum amplitude is not always the amplitude of the direct wave

Amplitude vs. waveform inversion
Amplitude inversion:
• homogeneous model of the medium
Introduction

• Green’s functions calculated using ray theory

• inversion of P-wave amplitudes (20-30 amplitudes)
Waveform
modelling

• frequencies: 250-500 Hz
 cannot take into account distortion of rays on focal sphere

Moment
tensor
inversion

 misinterpretation of amplitudes: which one is the direct wave?
Waveform inversion:

Summary

• 3-D heterogeneous model of the medium
• Green’s functions calculated using FD code

• inversion of full waveforms (15-20 waveforms)
• frequencies (at the moment): 25-100 Hz
 inversion is performed in frequency domain
 in principle same inversion algorithm as for amplitude inversion, but run
repeatedly for every frequency band (0.5 Hz steps)

Selected explosions: relocation
expl 1

expl 1

expl 3
Introduction

expl 5
Waveform
modelling

expl 3
Moment
tensor
inversion

expl 5
expl 1

Summary

expl 3

expl 5

Explosions (coords in m):
1) x=8306E y=2312N z=-1238
→ 26 m shift
3) x=8218E y=2192N z=-1352
→ 68 m shift
5) x=8214E y=2168N z=-1356
→ 59 m shift

Examples: good fit

Examples: amplitude misfit

Examples: phase misfit

Inversion results
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

explosion 1

explosion 3

explosion 5

Length of time windows

GF duration [10 ms]

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 1

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 3

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 5

nearly all solutions have high isotropic percentage
best solutions near diagonal
(length of GF time window = length of data time window)
best solutions P –wave + S-wave onset

Explosion 1
Amplitude inversion

Waveform inversion

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

DC = 7%
CLVD = -14%
ISO = 79%

Summary: seismicity in mines
structural model in mines is very complex

Introduction

large and abrupt changes in velocity at
cavities

model varies in time
Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

earthquake source is complex (single
forces, non-DC components)

small changes in source position lead to
large changes in ray propagation, rays can
be strongly curved

radiated wave field is complex
(reflected, converted, scattered waves, head
waves)

Summary: waveform inversion
In general:
• complex Green’s functions can be calculated by 3-D FD codes (accurate model needed!);
Introduction

• sensitive to time shifts due to mislocation or due to inaccurate velocity model

• frequency band of inverted waves can be easily controlled => stability analysis
Waveform
modelling

In particular:
Moment
tensor
inversion

• good network configuration => focal sphere nicely covered

• inversion algorithm:
• optimal with same window length for Green’s functions and data

Summary

• optimal with simultaneous inversion of P- and S-wave, but excluding S-wave coda
• yields high isotropic percentage, higher than amplitude inversion, almost
independently of window length
 promising, but computationally demanding (especially the computation of Green’s
functions with sufficiently small grid point distances)
 will be performed for selected events, not whole database

Thank you

for your
attention!

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Preikestolen_Norge.jpg


Slide 13

Moment tensor inversion at
Pyhasalmi ore mine:
accuracy test using explosions
Daniela Kühn (NORSAR)
V. Vavrycuk (Academy of Sciences of the CR)

AIM 2nd annual meeting, 29-30 Sept 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

Pyhäsalmi ore mine, Finland
• microseismic monitoring:
 since January 2003
 safety of the underground
personnel
 optimisation of mining
process

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

• network:
 12 1-C geophones
+ 6 3-C geophones (ISS)
 3-D geometry
 sampling rate: < 3000 Hz

Summary

owned by Inmet Mining Co.

• events:
 1500 events /months
(including blasting)
 -2 < Mw < 1.5

Inconsistent polarities of P-wave first onset
Moment tensor inversion:
• homogeneous velocity model (as for locations)
• amplitude inversion
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling

Complexity of velocity model
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling: 2D section
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

• E3D: viscoelastic 3-D FD code (Larsen and Schultz, 1995)
• strong interaction with mining cavities: reflection,
scattering, conversion
620 m
• healing of wavefronts

Waveform modelling
synthetic seismograms
- complex waveforms
Introduction

- strong coda

- complex secondary arrivals

Waveform
modelling

- scattering effects stronger
on amplitudes than travel
times,
since
size
of
heterogeneities
(cavities,
access tunnels) same order or
smaller than wavelengths

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

 arrival times computed by
Eikonal solver still fit
(wavefronts heal quickly
after passing a cavitiy)

observed seismograms

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Imaginary
network!
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Influence of proximity to cavity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Real mine
network!

Source depth → ray path
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Ray path → onset polarity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Moment tensor inversion

Amplitude picking
direct wave scattered wave
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

first maximum amplitude = amplitude of the direct wave
direct wave

scattered wave

Summary

energy diffracted
around cavity

?

first maximum amplitude is not always the amplitude of the direct wave

Amplitude vs. waveform inversion
Amplitude inversion:
• homogeneous model of the medium
Introduction

• Green’s functions calculated using ray theory

• inversion of P-wave amplitudes (20-30 amplitudes)
Waveform
modelling

• frequencies: 250-500 Hz
 cannot take into account distortion of rays on focal sphere

Moment
tensor
inversion

 misinterpretation of amplitudes: which one is the direct wave?
Waveform inversion:

Summary

• 3-D heterogeneous model of the medium
• Green’s functions calculated using FD code

• inversion of full waveforms (15-20 waveforms)
• frequencies (at the moment): 25-100 Hz
 inversion is performed in frequency domain
 in principle same inversion algorithm as for amplitude inversion, but run
repeatedly for every frequency band (0.5 Hz steps)

Selected explosions: relocation
expl 1

expl 1

expl 3
Introduction

expl 5
Waveform
modelling

expl 3
Moment
tensor
inversion

expl 5
expl 1

Summary

expl 3

expl 5

Explosions (coords in m):
1) x=8306E y=2312N z=-1238
→ 26 m shift
3) x=8218E y=2192N z=-1352
→ 68 m shift
5) x=8214E y=2168N z=-1356
→ 59 m shift

Examples: good fit

Examples: amplitude misfit

Examples: phase misfit

Inversion results
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

explosion 1

explosion 3

explosion 5

Length of time windows

GF duration [10 ms]

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 1

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 3

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 5

nearly all solutions have high isotropic percentage
best solutions near diagonal
(length of GF time window = length of data time window)
best solutions P –wave + S-wave onset

Explosion 1
Amplitude inversion

Waveform inversion

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

DC = 7%
CLVD = -14%
ISO = 79%

Summary: seismicity in mines
structural model in mines is very complex

Introduction

large and abrupt changes in velocity at
cavities

model varies in time
Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

earthquake source is complex (single
forces, non-DC components)

small changes in source position lead to
large changes in ray propagation, rays can
be strongly curved

radiated wave field is complex
(reflected, converted, scattered waves, head
waves)

Summary: waveform inversion
In general:
• complex Green’s functions can be calculated by 3-D FD codes (accurate model needed!);
Introduction

• sensitive to time shifts due to mislocation or due to inaccurate velocity model

• frequency band of inverted waves can be easily controlled => stability analysis
Waveform
modelling

In particular:
Moment
tensor
inversion

• good network configuration => focal sphere nicely covered

• inversion algorithm:
• optimal with same window length for Green’s functions and data

Summary

• optimal with simultaneous inversion of P- and S-wave, but excluding S-wave coda
• yields high isotropic percentage, higher than amplitude inversion, almost
independently of window length
 promising, but computationally demanding (especially the computation of Green’s
functions with sufficiently small grid point distances)
 will be performed for selected events, not whole database

Thank you

for your
attention!

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Preikestolen_Norge.jpg


Slide 14

Moment tensor inversion at
Pyhasalmi ore mine:
accuracy test using explosions
Daniela Kühn (NORSAR)
V. Vavrycuk (Academy of Sciences of the CR)

AIM 2nd annual meeting, 29-30 Sept 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

Pyhäsalmi ore mine, Finland
• microseismic monitoring:
 since January 2003
 safety of the underground
personnel
 optimisation of mining
process

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

• network:
 12 1-C geophones
+ 6 3-C geophones (ISS)
 3-D geometry
 sampling rate: < 3000 Hz

Summary

owned by Inmet Mining Co.

• events:
 1500 events /months
(including blasting)
 -2 < Mw < 1.5

Inconsistent polarities of P-wave first onset
Moment tensor inversion:
• homogeneous velocity model (as for locations)
• amplitude inversion
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling

Complexity of velocity model
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling: 2D section
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

• E3D: viscoelastic 3-D FD code (Larsen and Schultz, 1995)
• strong interaction with mining cavities: reflection,
scattering, conversion
620 m
• healing of wavefronts

Waveform modelling
synthetic seismograms
- complex waveforms
Introduction

- strong coda

- complex secondary arrivals

Waveform
modelling

- scattering effects stronger
on amplitudes than travel
times,
since
size
of
heterogeneities
(cavities,
access tunnels) same order or
smaller than wavelengths

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

 arrival times computed by
Eikonal solver still fit
(wavefronts heal quickly
after passing a cavitiy)

observed seismograms

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Imaginary
network!
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Influence of proximity to cavity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Real mine
network!

Source depth → ray path
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Ray path → onset polarity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Moment tensor inversion

Amplitude picking
direct wave scattered wave
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

first maximum amplitude = amplitude of the direct wave
direct wave

scattered wave

Summary

energy diffracted
around cavity

?

first maximum amplitude is not always the amplitude of the direct wave

Amplitude vs. waveform inversion
Amplitude inversion:
• homogeneous model of the medium
Introduction

• Green’s functions calculated using ray theory

• inversion of P-wave amplitudes (20-30 amplitudes)
Waveform
modelling

• frequencies: 250-500 Hz
 cannot take into account distortion of rays on focal sphere

Moment
tensor
inversion

 misinterpretation of amplitudes: which one is the direct wave?
Waveform inversion:

Summary

• 3-D heterogeneous model of the medium
• Green’s functions calculated using FD code

• inversion of full waveforms (15-20 waveforms)
• frequencies (at the moment): 25-100 Hz
 inversion is performed in frequency domain
 in principle same inversion algorithm as for amplitude inversion, but run
repeatedly for every frequency band (0.5 Hz steps)

Selected explosions: relocation
expl 1

expl 1

expl 3
Introduction

expl 5
Waveform
modelling

expl 3
Moment
tensor
inversion

expl 5
expl 1

Summary

expl 3

expl 5

Explosions (coords in m):
1) x=8306E y=2312N z=-1238
→ 26 m shift
3) x=8218E y=2192N z=-1352
→ 68 m shift
5) x=8214E y=2168N z=-1356
→ 59 m shift

Examples: good fit

Examples: amplitude misfit

Examples: phase misfit

Inversion results
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

explosion 1

explosion 3

explosion 5

Length of time windows

GF duration [10 ms]

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 1

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 3

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 5

nearly all solutions have high isotropic percentage
best solutions near diagonal
(length of GF time window = length of data time window)
best solutions P –wave + S-wave onset

Explosion 1
Amplitude inversion

Waveform inversion

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

DC = 7%
CLVD = -14%
ISO = 79%

Summary: seismicity in mines
structural model in mines is very complex

Introduction

large and abrupt changes in velocity at
cavities

model varies in time
Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

earthquake source is complex (single
forces, non-DC components)

small changes in source position lead to
large changes in ray propagation, rays can
be strongly curved

radiated wave field is complex
(reflected, converted, scattered waves, head
waves)

Summary: waveform inversion
In general:
• complex Green’s functions can be calculated by 3-D FD codes (accurate model needed!);
Introduction

• sensitive to time shifts due to mislocation or due to inaccurate velocity model

• frequency band of inverted waves can be easily controlled => stability analysis
Waveform
modelling

In particular:
Moment
tensor
inversion

• good network configuration => focal sphere nicely covered

• inversion algorithm:
• optimal with same window length for Green’s functions and data

Summary

• optimal with simultaneous inversion of P- and S-wave, but excluding S-wave coda
• yields high isotropic percentage, higher than amplitude inversion, almost
independently of window length
 promising, but computationally demanding (especially the computation of Green’s
functions with sufficiently small grid point distances)
 will be performed for selected events, not whole database

Thank you

for your
attention!

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Preikestolen_Norge.jpg


Slide 15

Moment tensor inversion at
Pyhasalmi ore mine:
accuracy test using explosions
Daniela Kühn (NORSAR)
V. Vavrycuk (Academy of Sciences of the CR)

AIM 2nd annual meeting, 29-30 Sept 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

Pyhäsalmi ore mine, Finland
• microseismic monitoring:
 since January 2003
 safety of the underground
personnel
 optimisation of mining
process

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

• network:
 12 1-C geophones
+ 6 3-C geophones (ISS)
 3-D geometry
 sampling rate: < 3000 Hz

Summary

owned by Inmet Mining Co.

• events:
 1500 events /months
(including blasting)
 -2 < Mw < 1.5

Inconsistent polarities of P-wave first onset
Moment tensor inversion:
• homogeneous velocity model (as for locations)
• amplitude inversion
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling

Complexity of velocity model
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling: 2D section
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

• E3D: viscoelastic 3-D FD code (Larsen and Schultz, 1995)
• strong interaction with mining cavities: reflection,
scattering, conversion
620 m
• healing of wavefronts

Waveform modelling
synthetic seismograms
- complex waveforms
Introduction

- strong coda

- complex secondary arrivals

Waveform
modelling

- scattering effects stronger
on amplitudes than travel
times,
since
size
of
heterogeneities
(cavities,
access tunnels) same order or
smaller than wavelengths

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

 arrival times computed by
Eikonal solver still fit
(wavefronts heal quickly
after passing a cavitiy)

observed seismograms

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Imaginary
network!
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Influence of proximity to cavity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Real mine
network!

Source depth → ray path
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Ray path → onset polarity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Moment tensor inversion

Amplitude picking
direct wave scattered wave
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

first maximum amplitude = amplitude of the direct wave
direct wave

scattered wave

Summary

energy diffracted
around cavity

?

first maximum amplitude is not always the amplitude of the direct wave

Amplitude vs. waveform inversion
Amplitude inversion:
• homogeneous model of the medium
Introduction

• Green’s functions calculated using ray theory

• inversion of P-wave amplitudes (20-30 amplitudes)
Waveform
modelling

• frequencies: 250-500 Hz
 cannot take into account distortion of rays on focal sphere

Moment
tensor
inversion

 misinterpretation of amplitudes: which one is the direct wave?
Waveform inversion:

Summary

• 3-D heterogeneous model of the medium
• Green’s functions calculated using FD code

• inversion of full waveforms (15-20 waveforms)
• frequencies (at the moment): 25-100 Hz
 inversion is performed in frequency domain
 in principle same inversion algorithm as for amplitude inversion, but run
repeatedly for every frequency band (0.5 Hz steps)

Selected explosions: relocation
expl 1

expl 1

expl 3
Introduction

expl 5
Waveform
modelling

expl 3
Moment
tensor
inversion

expl 5
expl 1

Summary

expl 3

expl 5

Explosions (coords in m):
1) x=8306E y=2312N z=-1238
→ 26 m shift
3) x=8218E y=2192N z=-1352
→ 68 m shift
5) x=8214E y=2168N z=-1356
→ 59 m shift

Examples: good fit

Examples: amplitude misfit

Examples: phase misfit

Inversion results
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

explosion 1

explosion 3

explosion 5

Length of time windows

GF duration [10 ms]

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 1

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 3

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 5

nearly all solutions have high isotropic percentage
best solutions near diagonal
(length of GF time window = length of data time window)
best solutions P –wave + S-wave onset

Explosion 1
Amplitude inversion

Waveform inversion

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

DC = 7%
CLVD = -14%
ISO = 79%

Summary: seismicity in mines
structural model in mines is very complex

Introduction

large and abrupt changes in velocity at
cavities

model varies in time
Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

earthquake source is complex (single
forces, non-DC components)

small changes in source position lead to
large changes in ray propagation, rays can
be strongly curved

radiated wave field is complex
(reflected, converted, scattered waves, head
waves)

Summary: waveform inversion
In general:
• complex Green’s functions can be calculated by 3-D FD codes (accurate model needed!);
Introduction

• sensitive to time shifts due to mislocation or due to inaccurate velocity model

• frequency band of inverted waves can be easily controlled => stability analysis
Waveform
modelling

In particular:
Moment
tensor
inversion

• good network configuration => focal sphere nicely covered

• inversion algorithm:
• optimal with same window length for Green’s functions and data

Summary

• optimal with simultaneous inversion of P- and S-wave, but excluding S-wave coda
• yields high isotropic percentage, higher than amplitude inversion, almost
independently of window length
 promising, but computationally demanding (especially the computation of Green’s
functions with sufficiently small grid point distances)
 will be performed for selected events, not whole database

Thank you

for your
attention!

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Preikestolen_Norge.jpg


Slide 16

Moment tensor inversion at
Pyhasalmi ore mine:
accuracy test using explosions
Daniela Kühn (NORSAR)
V. Vavrycuk (Academy of Sciences of the CR)

AIM 2nd annual meeting, 29-30 Sept 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

Pyhäsalmi ore mine, Finland
• microseismic monitoring:
 since January 2003
 safety of the underground
personnel
 optimisation of mining
process

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

• network:
 12 1-C geophones
+ 6 3-C geophones (ISS)
 3-D geometry
 sampling rate: < 3000 Hz

Summary

owned by Inmet Mining Co.

• events:
 1500 events /months
(including blasting)
 -2 < Mw < 1.5

Inconsistent polarities of P-wave first onset
Moment tensor inversion:
• homogeneous velocity model (as for locations)
• amplitude inversion
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling

Complexity of velocity model
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling: 2D section
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

• E3D: viscoelastic 3-D FD code (Larsen and Schultz, 1995)
• strong interaction with mining cavities: reflection,
scattering, conversion
620 m
• healing of wavefronts

Waveform modelling
synthetic seismograms
- complex waveforms
Introduction

- strong coda

- complex secondary arrivals

Waveform
modelling

- scattering effects stronger
on amplitudes than travel
times,
since
size
of
heterogeneities
(cavities,
access tunnels) same order or
smaller than wavelengths

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

 arrival times computed by
Eikonal solver still fit
(wavefronts heal quickly
after passing a cavitiy)

observed seismograms

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Imaginary
network!
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Influence of proximity to cavity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Real mine
network!

Source depth → ray path
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Ray path → onset polarity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Moment tensor inversion

Amplitude picking
direct wave scattered wave
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

first maximum amplitude = amplitude of the direct wave
direct wave

scattered wave

Summary

energy diffracted
around cavity

?

first maximum amplitude is not always the amplitude of the direct wave

Amplitude vs. waveform inversion
Amplitude inversion:
• homogeneous model of the medium
Introduction

• Green’s functions calculated using ray theory

• inversion of P-wave amplitudes (20-30 amplitudes)
Waveform
modelling

• frequencies: 250-500 Hz
 cannot take into account distortion of rays on focal sphere

Moment
tensor
inversion

 misinterpretation of amplitudes: which one is the direct wave?
Waveform inversion:

Summary

• 3-D heterogeneous model of the medium
• Green’s functions calculated using FD code

• inversion of full waveforms (15-20 waveforms)
• frequencies (at the moment): 25-100 Hz
 inversion is performed in frequency domain
 in principle same inversion algorithm as for amplitude inversion, but run
repeatedly for every frequency band (0.5 Hz steps)

Selected explosions: relocation
expl 1

expl 1

expl 3
Introduction

expl 5
Waveform
modelling

expl 3
Moment
tensor
inversion

expl 5
expl 1

Summary

expl 3

expl 5

Explosions (coords in m):
1) x=8306E y=2312N z=-1238
→ 26 m shift
3) x=8218E y=2192N z=-1352
→ 68 m shift
5) x=8214E y=2168N z=-1356
→ 59 m shift

Examples: good fit

Examples: amplitude misfit

Examples: phase misfit

Inversion results
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

explosion 1

explosion 3

explosion 5

Length of time windows

GF duration [10 ms]

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 1

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 3

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 5

nearly all solutions have high isotropic percentage
best solutions near diagonal
(length of GF time window = length of data time window)
best solutions P –wave + S-wave onset

Explosion 1
Amplitude inversion

Waveform inversion

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

DC = 7%
CLVD = -14%
ISO = 79%

Summary: seismicity in mines
structural model in mines is very complex

Introduction

large and abrupt changes in velocity at
cavities

model varies in time
Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

earthquake source is complex (single
forces, non-DC components)

small changes in source position lead to
large changes in ray propagation, rays can
be strongly curved

radiated wave field is complex
(reflected, converted, scattered waves, head
waves)

Summary: waveform inversion
In general:
• complex Green’s functions can be calculated by 3-D FD codes (accurate model needed!);
Introduction

• sensitive to time shifts due to mislocation or due to inaccurate velocity model

• frequency band of inverted waves can be easily controlled => stability analysis
Waveform
modelling

In particular:
Moment
tensor
inversion

• good network configuration => focal sphere nicely covered

• inversion algorithm:
• optimal with same window length for Green’s functions and data

Summary

• optimal with simultaneous inversion of P- and S-wave, but excluding S-wave coda
• yields high isotropic percentage, higher than amplitude inversion, almost
independently of window length
 promising, but computationally demanding (especially the computation of Green’s
functions with sufficiently small grid point distances)
 will be performed for selected events, not whole database

Thank you

for your
attention!

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Preikestolen_Norge.jpg


Slide 17

Moment tensor inversion at
Pyhasalmi ore mine:
accuracy test using explosions
Daniela Kühn (NORSAR)
V. Vavrycuk (Academy of Sciences of the CR)

AIM 2nd annual meeting, 29-30 Sept 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

Pyhäsalmi ore mine, Finland
• microseismic monitoring:
 since January 2003
 safety of the underground
personnel
 optimisation of mining
process

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

• network:
 12 1-C geophones
+ 6 3-C geophones (ISS)
 3-D geometry
 sampling rate: < 3000 Hz

Summary

owned by Inmet Mining Co.

• events:
 1500 events /months
(including blasting)
 -2 < Mw < 1.5

Inconsistent polarities of P-wave first onset
Moment tensor inversion:
• homogeneous velocity model (as for locations)
• amplitude inversion
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling

Complexity of velocity model
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling: 2D section
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

• E3D: viscoelastic 3-D FD code (Larsen and Schultz, 1995)
• strong interaction with mining cavities: reflection,
scattering, conversion
620 m
• healing of wavefronts

Waveform modelling
synthetic seismograms
- complex waveforms
Introduction

- strong coda

- complex secondary arrivals

Waveform
modelling

- scattering effects stronger
on amplitudes than travel
times,
since
size
of
heterogeneities
(cavities,
access tunnels) same order or
smaller than wavelengths

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

 arrival times computed by
Eikonal solver still fit
(wavefronts heal quickly
after passing a cavitiy)

observed seismograms

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Imaginary
network!
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Influence of proximity to cavity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Real mine
network!

Source depth → ray path
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Ray path → onset polarity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Moment tensor inversion

Amplitude picking
direct wave scattered wave
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

first maximum amplitude = amplitude of the direct wave
direct wave

scattered wave

Summary

energy diffracted
around cavity

?

first maximum amplitude is not always the amplitude of the direct wave

Amplitude vs. waveform inversion
Amplitude inversion:
• homogeneous model of the medium
Introduction

• Green’s functions calculated using ray theory

• inversion of P-wave amplitudes (20-30 amplitudes)
Waveform
modelling

• frequencies: 250-500 Hz
 cannot take into account distortion of rays on focal sphere

Moment
tensor
inversion

 misinterpretation of amplitudes: which one is the direct wave?
Waveform inversion:

Summary

• 3-D heterogeneous model of the medium
• Green’s functions calculated using FD code

• inversion of full waveforms (15-20 waveforms)
• frequencies (at the moment): 25-100 Hz
 inversion is performed in frequency domain
 in principle same inversion algorithm as for amplitude inversion, but run
repeatedly for every frequency band (0.5 Hz steps)

Selected explosions: relocation
expl 1

expl 1

expl 3
Introduction

expl 5
Waveform
modelling

expl 3
Moment
tensor
inversion

expl 5
expl 1

Summary

expl 3

expl 5

Explosions (coords in m):
1) x=8306E y=2312N z=-1238
→ 26 m shift
3) x=8218E y=2192N z=-1352
→ 68 m shift
5) x=8214E y=2168N z=-1356
→ 59 m shift

Examples: good fit

Examples: amplitude misfit

Examples: phase misfit

Inversion results
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

explosion 1

explosion 3

explosion 5

Length of time windows

GF duration [10 ms]

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 1

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 3

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 5

nearly all solutions have high isotropic percentage
best solutions near diagonal
(length of GF time window = length of data time window)
best solutions P –wave + S-wave onset

Explosion 1
Amplitude inversion

Waveform inversion

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

DC = 7%
CLVD = -14%
ISO = 79%

Summary: seismicity in mines
structural model in mines is very complex

Introduction

large and abrupt changes in velocity at
cavities

model varies in time
Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

earthquake source is complex (single
forces, non-DC components)

small changes in source position lead to
large changes in ray propagation, rays can
be strongly curved

radiated wave field is complex
(reflected, converted, scattered waves, head
waves)

Summary: waveform inversion
In general:
• complex Green’s functions can be calculated by 3-D FD codes (accurate model needed!);
Introduction

• sensitive to time shifts due to mislocation or due to inaccurate velocity model

• frequency band of inverted waves can be easily controlled => stability analysis
Waveform
modelling

In particular:
Moment
tensor
inversion

• good network configuration => focal sphere nicely covered

• inversion algorithm:
• optimal with same window length for Green’s functions and data

Summary

• optimal with simultaneous inversion of P- and S-wave, but excluding S-wave coda
• yields high isotropic percentage, higher than amplitude inversion, almost
independently of window length
 promising, but computationally demanding (especially the computation of Green’s
functions with sufficiently small grid point distances)
 will be performed for selected events, not whole database

Thank you

for your
attention!

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Preikestolen_Norge.jpg


Slide 18

Moment tensor inversion at
Pyhasalmi ore mine:
accuracy test using explosions
Daniela Kühn (NORSAR)
V. Vavrycuk (Academy of Sciences of the CR)

AIM 2nd annual meeting, 29-30 Sept 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

Pyhäsalmi ore mine, Finland
• microseismic monitoring:
 since January 2003
 safety of the underground
personnel
 optimisation of mining
process

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

• network:
 12 1-C geophones
+ 6 3-C geophones (ISS)
 3-D geometry
 sampling rate: < 3000 Hz

Summary

owned by Inmet Mining Co.

• events:
 1500 events /months
(including blasting)
 -2 < Mw < 1.5

Inconsistent polarities of P-wave first onset
Moment tensor inversion:
• homogeneous velocity model (as for locations)
• amplitude inversion
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling

Complexity of velocity model
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling: 2D section
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

• E3D: viscoelastic 3-D FD code (Larsen and Schultz, 1995)
• strong interaction with mining cavities: reflection,
scattering, conversion
620 m
• healing of wavefronts

Waveform modelling
synthetic seismograms
- complex waveforms
Introduction

- strong coda

- complex secondary arrivals

Waveform
modelling

- scattering effects stronger
on amplitudes than travel
times,
since
size
of
heterogeneities
(cavities,
access tunnels) same order or
smaller than wavelengths

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

 arrival times computed by
Eikonal solver still fit
(wavefronts heal quickly
after passing a cavitiy)

observed seismograms

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Imaginary
network!
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Influence of proximity to cavity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Real mine
network!

Source depth → ray path
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Ray path → onset polarity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Moment tensor inversion

Amplitude picking
direct wave scattered wave
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

first maximum amplitude = amplitude of the direct wave
direct wave

scattered wave

Summary

energy diffracted
around cavity

?

first maximum amplitude is not always the amplitude of the direct wave

Amplitude vs. waveform inversion
Amplitude inversion:
• homogeneous model of the medium
Introduction

• Green’s functions calculated using ray theory

• inversion of P-wave amplitudes (20-30 amplitudes)
Waveform
modelling

• frequencies: 250-500 Hz
 cannot take into account distortion of rays on focal sphere

Moment
tensor
inversion

 misinterpretation of amplitudes: which one is the direct wave?
Waveform inversion:

Summary

• 3-D heterogeneous model of the medium
• Green’s functions calculated using FD code

• inversion of full waveforms (15-20 waveforms)
• frequencies (at the moment): 25-100 Hz
 inversion is performed in frequency domain
 in principle same inversion algorithm as for amplitude inversion, but run
repeatedly for every frequency band (0.5 Hz steps)

Selected explosions: relocation
expl 1

expl 1

expl 3
Introduction

expl 5
Waveform
modelling

expl 3
Moment
tensor
inversion

expl 5
expl 1

Summary

expl 3

expl 5

Explosions (coords in m):
1) x=8306E y=2312N z=-1238
→ 26 m shift
3) x=8218E y=2192N z=-1352
→ 68 m shift
5) x=8214E y=2168N z=-1356
→ 59 m shift

Examples: good fit

Examples: amplitude misfit

Examples: phase misfit

Inversion results
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

explosion 1

explosion 3

explosion 5

Length of time windows

GF duration [10 ms]

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 1

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 3

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 5

nearly all solutions have high isotropic percentage
best solutions near diagonal
(length of GF time window = length of data time window)
best solutions P –wave + S-wave onset

Explosion 1
Amplitude inversion

Waveform inversion

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

DC = 7%
CLVD = -14%
ISO = 79%

Summary: seismicity in mines
structural model in mines is very complex

Introduction

large and abrupt changes in velocity at
cavities

model varies in time
Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

earthquake source is complex (single
forces, non-DC components)

small changes in source position lead to
large changes in ray propagation, rays can
be strongly curved

radiated wave field is complex
(reflected, converted, scattered waves, head
waves)

Summary: waveform inversion
In general:
• complex Green’s functions can be calculated by 3-D FD codes (accurate model needed!);
Introduction

• sensitive to time shifts due to mislocation or due to inaccurate velocity model

• frequency band of inverted waves can be easily controlled => stability analysis
Waveform
modelling

In particular:
Moment
tensor
inversion

• good network configuration => focal sphere nicely covered

• inversion algorithm:
• optimal with same window length for Green’s functions and data

Summary

• optimal with simultaneous inversion of P- and S-wave, but excluding S-wave coda
• yields high isotropic percentage, higher than amplitude inversion, almost
independently of window length
 promising, but computationally demanding (especially the computation of Green’s
functions with sufficiently small grid point distances)
 will be performed for selected events, not whole database

Thank you

for your
attention!

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Preikestolen_Norge.jpg


Slide 19

Moment tensor inversion at
Pyhasalmi ore mine:
accuracy test using explosions
Daniela Kühn (NORSAR)
V. Vavrycuk (Academy of Sciences of the CR)

AIM 2nd annual meeting, 29-30 Sept 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

Pyhäsalmi ore mine, Finland
• microseismic monitoring:
 since January 2003
 safety of the underground
personnel
 optimisation of mining
process

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

• network:
 12 1-C geophones
+ 6 3-C geophones (ISS)
 3-D geometry
 sampling rate: < 3000 Hz

Summary

owned by Inmet Mining Co.

• events:
 1500 events /months
(including blasting)
 -2 < Mw < 1.5

Inconsistent polarities of P-wave first onset
Moment tensor inversion:
• homogeneous velocity model (as for locations)
• amplitude inversion
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling

Complexity of velocity model
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling: 2D section
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

• E3D: viscoelastic 3-D FD code (Larsen and Schultz, 1995)
• strong interaction with mining cavities: reflection,
scattering, conversion
620 m
• healing of wavefronts

Waveform modelling
synthetic seismograms
- complex waveforms
Introduction

- strong coda

- complex secondary arrivals

Waveform
modelling

- scattering effects stronger
on amplitudes than travel
times,
since
size
of
heterogeneities
(cavities,
access tunnels) same order or
smaller than wavelengths

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

 arrival times computed by
Eikonal solver still fit
(wavefronts heal quickly
after passing a cavitiy)

observed seismograms

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Imaginary
network!
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Influence of proximity to cavity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Real mine
network!

Source depth → ray path
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Ray path → onset polarity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Moment tensor inversion

Amplitude picking
direct wave scattered wave
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

first maximum amplitude = amplitude of the direct wave
direct wave

scattered wave

Summary

energy diffracted
around cavity

?

first maximum amplitude is not always the amplitude of the direct wave

Amplitude vs. waveform inversion
Amplitude inversion:
• homogeneous model of the medium
Introduction

• Green’s functions calculated using ray theory

• inversion of P-wave amplitudes (20-30 amplitudes)
Waveform
modelling

• frequencies: 250-500 Hz
 cannot take into account distortion of rays on focal sphere

Moment
tensor
inversion

 misinterpretation of amplitudes: which one is the direct wave?
Waveform inversion:

Summary

• 3-D heterogeneous model of the medium
• Green’s functions calculated using FD code

• inversion of full waveforms (15-20 waveforms)
• frequencies (at the moment): 25-100 Hz
 inversion is performed in frequency domain
 in principle same inversion algorithm as for amplitude inversion, but run
repeatedly for every frequency band (0.5 Hz steps)

Selected explosions: relocation
expl 1

expl 1

expl 3
Introduction

expl 5
Waveform
modelling

expl 3
Moment
tensor
inversion

expl 5
expl 1

Summary

expl 3

expl 5

Explosions (coords in m):
1) x=8306E y=2312N z=-1238
→ 26 m shift
3) x=8218E y=2192N z=-1352
→ 68 m shift
5) x=8214E y=2168N z=-1356
→ 59 m shift

Examples: good fit

Examples: amplitude misfit

Examples: phase misfit

Inversion results
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

explosion 1

explosion 3

explosion 5

Length of time windows

GF duration [10 ms]

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 1

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 3

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 5

nearly all solutions have high isotropic percentage
best solutions near diagonal
(length of GF time window = length of data time window)
best solutions P –wave + S-wave onset

Explosion 1
Amplitude inversion

Waveform inversion

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

DC = 7%
CLVD = -14%
ISO = 79%

Summary: seismicity in mines
structural model in mines is very complex

Introduction

large and abrupt changes in velocity at
cavities

model varies in time
Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

earthquake source is complex (single
forces, non-DC components)

small changes in source position lead to
large changes in ray propagation, rays can
be strongly curved

radiated wave field is complex
(reflected, converted, scattered waves, head
waves)

Summary: waveform inversion
In general:
• complex Green’s functions can be calculated by 3-D FD codes (accurate model needed!);
Introduction

• sensitive to time shifts due to mislocation or due to inaccurate velocity model

• frequency band of inverted waves can be easily controlled => stability analysis
Waveform
modelling

In particular:
Moment
tensor
inversion

• good network configuration => focal sphere nicely covered

• inversion algorithm:
• optimal with same window length for Green’s functions and data

Summary

• optimal with simultaneous inversion of P- and S-wave, but excluding S-wave coda
• yields high isotropic percentage, higher than amplitude inversion, almost
independently of window length
 promising, but computationally demanding (especially the computation of Green’s
functions with sufficiently small grid point distances)
 will be performed for selected events, not whole database

Thank you

for your
attention!

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Preikestolen_Norge.jpg


Slide 20

Moment tensor inversion at
Pyhasalmi ore mine:
accuracy test using explosions
Daniela Kühn (NORSAR)
V. Vavrycuk (Academy of Sciences of the CR)

AIM 2nd annual meeting, 29-30 Sept 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

Pyhäsalmi ore mine, Finland
• microseismic monitoring:
 since January 2003
 safety of the underground
personnel
 optimisation of mining
process

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

• network:
 12 1-C geophones
+ 6 3-C geophones (ISS)
 3-D geometry
 sampling rate: < 3000 Hz

Summary

owned by Inmet Mining Co.

• events:
 1500 events /months
(including blasting)
 -2 < Mw < 1.5

Inconsistent polarities of P-wave first onset
Moment tensor inversion:
• homogeneous velocity model (as for locations)
• amplitude inversion
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling

Complexity of velocity model
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling: 2D section
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

• E3D: viscoelastic 3-D FD code (Larsen and Schultz, 1995)
• strong interaction with mining cavities: reflection,
scattering, conversion
620 m
• healing of wavefronts

Waveform modelling
synthetic seismograms
- complex waveforms
Introduction

- strong coda

- complex secondary arrivals

Waveform
modelling

- scattering effects stronger
on amplitudes than travel
times,
since
size
of
heterogeneities
(cavities,
access tunnels) same order or
smaller than wavelengths

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

 arrival times computed by
Eikonal solver still fit
(wavefronts heal quickly
after passing a cavitiy)

observed seismograms

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Imaginary
network!
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Influence of proximity to cavity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Real mine
network!

Source depth → ray path
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Ray path → onset polarity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Moment tensor inversion

Amplitude picking
direct wave scattered wave
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

first maximum amplitude = amplitude of the direct wave
direct wave

scattered wave

Summary

energy diffracted
around cavity

?

first maximum amplitude is not always the amplitude of the direct wave

Amplitude vs. waveform inversion
Amplitude inversion:
• homogeneous model of the medium
Introduction

• Green’s functions calculated using ray theory

• inversion of P-wave amplitudes (20-30 amplitudes)
Waveform
modelling

• frequencies: 250-500 Hz
 cannot take into account distortion of rays on focal sphere

Moment
tensor
inversion

 misinterpretation of amplitudes: which one is the direct wave?
Waveform inversion:

Summary

• 3-D heterogeneous model of the medium
• Green’s functions calculated using FD code

• inversion of full waveforms (15-20 waveforms)
• frequencies (at the moment): 25-100 Hz
 inversion is performed in frequency domain
 in principle same inversion algorithm as for amplitude inversion, but run
repeatedly for every frequency band (0.5 Hz steps)

Selected explosions: relocation
expl 1

expl 1

expl 3
Introduction

expl 5
Waveform
modelling

expl 3
Moment
tensor
inversion

expl 5
expl 1

Summary

expl 3

expl 5

Explosions (coords in m):
1) x=8306E y=2312N z=-1238
→ 26 m shift
3) x=8218E y=2192N z=-1352
→ 68 m shift
5) x=8214E y=2168N z=-1356
→ 59 m shift

Examples: good fit

Examples: amplitude misfit

Examples: phase misfit

Inversion results
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

explosion 1

explosion 3

explosion 5

Length of time windows

GF duration [10 ms]

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 1

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 3

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 5

nearly all solutions have high isotropic percentage
best solutions near diagonal
(length of GF time window = length of data time window)
best solutions P –wave + S-wave onset

Explosion 1
Amplitude inversion

Waveform inversion

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

DC = 7%
CLVD = -14%
ISO = 79%

Summary: seismicity in mines
structural model in mines is very complex

Introduction

large and abrupt changes in velocity at
cavities

model varies in time
Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

earthquake source is complex (single
forces, non-DC components)

small changes in source position lead to
large changes in ray propagation, rays can
be strongly curved

radiated wave field is complex
(reflected, converted, scattered waves, head
waves)

Summary: waveform inversion
In general:
• complex Green’s functions can be calculated by 3-D FD codes (accurate model needed!);
Introduction

• sensitive to time shifts due to mislocation or due to inaccurate velocity model

• frequency band of inverted waves can be easily controlled => stability analysis
Waveform
modelling

In particular:
Moment
tensor
inversion

• good network configuration => focal sphere nicely covered

• inversion algorithm:
• optimal with same window length for Green’s functions and data

Summary

• optimal with simultaneous inversion of P- and S-wave, but excluding S-wave coda
• yields high isotropic percentage, higher than amplitude inversion, almost
independently of window length
 promising, but computationally demanding (especially the computation of Green’s
functions with sufficiently small grid point distances)
 will be performed for selected events, not whole database

Thank you

for your
attention!

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Preikestolen_Norge.jpg


Slide 21

Moment tensor inversion at
Pyhasalmi ore mine:
accuracy test using explosions
Daniela Kühn (NORSAR)
V. Vavrycuk (Academy of Sciences of the CR)

AIM 2nd annual meeting, 29-30 Sept 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

Pyhäsalmi ore mine, Finland
• microseismic monitoring:
 since January 2003
 safety of the underground
personnel
 optimisation of mining
process

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

• network:
 12 1-C geophones
+ 6 3-C geophones (ISS)
 3-D geometry
 sampling rate: < 3000 Hz

Summary

owned by Inmet Mining Co.

• events:
 1500 events /months
(including blasting)
 -2 < Mw < 1.5

Inconsistent polarities of P-wave first onset
Moment tensor inversion:
• homogeneous velocity model (as for locations)
• amplitude inversion
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling

Complexity of velocity model
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling: 2D section
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

• E3D: viscoelastic 3-D FD code (Larsen and Schultz, 1995)
• strong interaction with mining cavities: reflection,
scattering, conversion
620 m
• healing of wavefronts

Waveform modelling
synthetic seismograms
- complex waveforms
Introduction

- strong coda

- complex secondary arrivals

Waveform
modelling

- scattering effects stronger
on amplitudes than travel
times,
since
size
of
heterogeneities
(cavities,
access tunnels) same order or
smaller than wavelengths

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

 arrival times computed by
Eikonal solver still fit
(wavefronts heal quickly
after passing a cavitiy)

observed seismograms

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Imaginary
network!
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Influence of proximity to cavity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Real mine
network!

Source depth → ray path
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Ray path → onset polarity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Moment tensor inversion

Amplitude picking
direct wave scattered wave
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

first maximum amplitude = amplitude of the direct wave
direct wave

scattered wave

Summary

energy diffracted
around cavity

?

first maximum amplitude is not always the amplitude of the direct wave

Amplitude vs. waveform inversion
Amplitude inversion:
• homogeneous model of the medium
Introduction

• Green’s functions calculated using ray theory

• inversion of P-wave amplitudes (20-30 amplitudes)
Waveform
modelling

• frequencies: 250-500 Hz
 cannot take into account distortion of rays on focal sphere

Moment
tensor
inversion

 misinterpretation of amplitudes: which one is the direct wave?
Waveform inversion:

Summary

• 3-D heterogeneous model of the medium
• Green’s functions calculated using FD code

• inversion of full waveforms (15-20 waveforms)
• frequencies (at the moment): 25-100 Hz
 inversion is performed in frequency domain
 in principle same inversion algorithm as for amplitude inversion, but run
repeatedly for every frequency band (0.5 Hz steps)

Selected explosions: relocation
expl 1

expl 1

expl 3
Introduction

expl 5
Waveform
modelling

expl 3
Moment
tensor
inversion

expl 5
expl 1

Summary

expl 3

expl 5

Explosions (coords in m):
1) x=8306E y=2312N z=-1238
→ 26 m shift
3) x=8218E y=2192N z=-1352
→ 68 m shift
5) x=8214E y=2168N z=-1356
→ 59 m shift

Examples: good fit

Examples: amplitude misfit

Examples: phase misfit

Inversion results
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

explosion 1

explosion 3

explosion 5

Length of time windows

GF duration [10 ms]

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 1

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 3

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 5

nearly all solutions have high isotropic percentage
best solutions near diagonal
(length of GF time window = length of data time window)
best solutions P –wave + S-wave onset

Explosion 1
Amplitude inversion

Waveform inversion

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

DC = 7%
CLVD = -14%
ISO = 79%

Summary: seismicity in mines
structural model in mines is very complex

Introduction

large and abrupt changes in velocity at
cavities

model varies in time
Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

earthquake source is complex (single
forces, non-DC components)

small changes in source position lead to
large changes in ray propagation, rays can
be strongly curved

radiated wave field is complex
(reflected, converted, scattered waves, head
waves)

Summary: waveform inversion
In general:
• complex Green’s functions can be calculated by 3-D FD codes (accurate model needed!);
Introduction

• sensitive to time shifts due to mislocation or due to inaccurate velocity model

• frequency band of inverted waves can be easily controlled => stability analysis
Waveform
modelling

In particular:
Moment
tensor
inversion

• good network configuration => focal sphere nicely covered

• inversion algorithm:
• optimal with same window length for Green’s functions and data

Summary

• optimal with simultaneous inversion of P- and S-wave, but excluding S-wave coda
• yields high isotropic percentage, higher than amplitude inversion, almost
independently of window length
 promising, but computationally demanding (especially the computation of Green’s
functions with sufficiently small grid point distances)
 will be performed for selected events, not whole database

Thank you

for your
attention!

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Preikestolen_Norge.jpg


Slide 22

Moment tensor inversion at
Pyhasalmi ore mine:
accuracy test using explosions
Daniela Kühn (NORSAR)
V. Vavrycuk (Academy of Sciences of the CR)

AIM 2nd annual meeting, 29-30 Sept 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

Pyhäsalmi ore mine, Finland
• microseismic monitoring:
 since January 2003
 safety of the underground
personnel
 optimisation of mining
process

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

• network:
 12 1-C geophones
+ 6 3-C geophones (ISS)
 3-D geometry
 sampling rate: < 3000 Hz

Summary

owned by Inmet Mining Co.

• events:
 1500 events /months
(including blasting)
 -2 < Mw < 1.5

Inconsistent polarities of P-wave first onset
Moment tensor inversion:
• homogeneous velocity model (as for locations)
• amplitude inversion
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling

Complexity of velocity model
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling: 2D section
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

• E3D: viscoelastic 3-D FD code (Larsen and Schultz, 1995)
• strong interaction with mining cavities: reflection,
scattering, conversion
620 m
• healing of wavefronts

Waveform modelling
synthetic seismograms
- complex waveforms
Introduction

- strong coda

- complex secondary arrivals

Waveform
modelling

- scattering effects stronger
on amplitudes than travel
times,
since
size
of
heterogeneities
(cavities,
access tunnels) same order or
smaller than wavelengths

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

 arrival times computed by
Eikonal solver still fit
(wavefronts heal quickly
after passing a cavitiy)

observed seismograms

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Imaginary
network!
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Influence of proximity to cavity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Real mine
network!

Source depth → ray path
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Ray path → onset polarity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Moment tensor inversion

Amplitude picking
direct wave scattered wave
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

first maximum amplitude = amplitude of the direct wave
direct wave

scattered wave

Summary

energy diffracted
around cavity

?

first maximum amplitude is not always the amplitude of the direct wave

Amplitude vs. waveform inversion
Amplitude inversion:
• homogeneous model of the medium
Introduction

• Green’s functions calculated using ray theory

• inversion of P-wave amplitudes (20-30 amplitudes)
Waveform
modelling

• frequencies: 250-500 Hz
 cannot take into account distortion of rays on focal sphere

Moment
tensor
inversion

 misinterpretation of amplitudes: which one is the direct wave?
Waveform inversion:

Summary

• 3-D heterogeneous model of the medium
• Green’s functions calculated using FD code

• inversion of full waveforms (15-20 waveforms)
• frequencies (at the moment): 25-100 Hz
 inversion is performed in frequency domain
 in principle same inversion algorithm as for amplitude inversion, but run
repeatedly for every frequency band (0.5 Hz steps)

Selected explosions: relocation
expl 1

expl 1

expl 3
Introduction

expl 5
Waveform
modelling

expl 3
Moment
tensor
inversion

expl 5
expl 1

Summary

expl 3

expl 5

Explosions (coords in m):
1) x=8306E y=2312N z=-1238
→ 26 m shift
3) x=8218E y=2192N z=-1352
→ 68 m shift
5) x=8214E y=2168N z=-1356
→ 59 m shift

Examples: good fit

Examples: amplitude misfit

Examples: phase misfit

Inversion results
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

explosion 1

explosion 3

explosion 5

Length of time windows

GF duration [10 ms]

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 1

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 3

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 5

nearly all solutions have high isotropic percentage
best solutions near diagonal
(length of GF time window = length of data time window)
best solutions P –wave + S-wave onset

Explosion 1
Amplitude inversion

Waveform inversion

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

DC = 7%
CLVD = -14%
ISO = 79%

Summary: seismicity in mines
structural model in mines is very complex

Introduction

large and abrupt changes in velocity at
cavities

model varies in time
Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

earthquake source is complex (single
forces, non-DC components)

small changes in source position lead to
large changes in ray propagation, rays can
be strongly curved

radiated wave field is complex
(reflected, converted, scattered waves, head
waves)

Summary: waveform inversion
In general:
• complex Green’s functions can be calculated by 3-D FD codes (accurate model needed!);
Introduction

• sensitive to time shifts due to mislocation or due to inaccurate velocity model

• frequency band of inverted waves can be easily controlled => stability analysis
Waveform
modelling

In particular:
Moment
tensor
inversion

• good network configuration => focal sphere nicely covered

• inversion algorithm:
• optimal with same window length for Green’s functions and data

Summary

• optimal with simultaneous inversion of P- and S-wave, but excluding S-wave coda
• yields high isotropic percentage, higher than amplitude inversion, almost
independently of window length
 promising, but computationally demanding (especially the computation of Green’s
functions with sufficiently small grid point distances)
 will be performed for selected events, not whole database

Thank you

for your
attention!

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Preikestolen_Norge.jpg


Slide 23

Moment tensor inversion at
Pyhasalmi ore mine:
accuracy test using explosions
Daniela Kühn (NORSAR)
V. Vavrycuk (Academy of Sciences of the CR)

AIM 2nd annual meeting, 29-30 Sept 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

Pyhäsalmi ore mine, Finland
• microseismic monitoring:
 since January 2003
 safety of the underground
personnel
 optimisation of mining
process

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

• network:
 12 1-C geophones
+ 6 3-C geophones (ISS)
 3-D geometry
 sampling rate: < 3000 Hz

Summary

owned by Inmet Mining Co.

• events:
 1500 events /months
(including blasting)
 -2 < Mw < 1.5

Inconsistent polarities of P-wave first onset
Moment tensor inversion:
• homogeneous velocity model (as for locations)
• amplitude inversion
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling

Complexity of velocity model
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling: 2D section
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

• E3D: viscoelastic 3-D FD code (Larsen and Schultz, 1995)
• strong interaction with mining cavities: reflection,
scattering, conversion
620 m
• healing of wavefronts

Waveform modelling
synthetic seismograms
- complex waveforms
Introduction

- strong coda

- complex secondary arrivals

Waveform
modelling

- scattering effects stronger
on amplitudes than travel
times,
since
size
of
heterogeneities
(cavities,
access tunnels) same order or
smaller than wavelengths

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

 arrival times computed by
Eikonal solver still fit
(wavefronts heal quickly
after passing a cavitiy)

observed seismograms

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Imaginary
network!
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Influence of proximity to cavity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Real mine
network!

Source depth → ray path
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Ray path → onset polarity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Moment tensor inversion

Amplitude picking
direct wave scattered wave
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

first maximum amplitude = amplitude of the direct wave
direct wave

scattered wave

Summary

energy diffracted
around cavity

?

first maximum amplitude is not always the amplitude of the direct wave

Amplitude vs. waveform inversion
Amplitude inversion:
• homogeneous model of the medium
Introduction

• Green’s functions calculated using ray theory

• inversion of P-wave amplitudes (20-30 amplitudes)
Waveform
modelling

• frequencies: 250-500 Hz
 cannot take into account distortion of rays on focal sphere

Moment
tensor
inversion

 misinterpretation of amplitudes: which one is the direct wave?
Waveform inversion:

Summary

• 3-D heterogeneous model of the medium
• Green’s functions calculated using FD code

• inversion of full waveforms (15-20 waveforms)
• frequencies (at the moment): 25-100 Hz
 inversion is performed in frequency domain
 in principle same inversion algorithm as for amplitude inversion, but run
repeatedly for every frequency band (0.5 Hz steps)

Selected explosions: relocation
expl 1

expl 1

expl 3
Introduction

expl 5
Waveform
modelling

expl 3
Moment
tensor
inversion

expl 5
expl 1

Summary

expl 3

expl 5

Explosions (coords in m):
1) x=8306E y=2312N z=-1238
→ 26 m shift
3) x=8218E y=2192N z=-1352
→ 68 m shift
5) x=8214E y=2168N z=-1356
→ 59 m shift

Examples: good fit

Examples: amplitude misfit

Examples: phase misfit

Inversion results
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

explosion 1

explosion 3

explosion 5

Length of time windows

GF duration [10 ms]

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 1

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 3

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 5

nearly all solutions have high isotropic percentage
best solutions near diagonal
(length of GF time window = length of data time window)
best solutions P –wave + S-wave onset

Explosion 1
Amplitude inversion

Waveform inversion

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

DC = 7%
CLVD = -14%
ISO = 79%

Summary: seismicity in mines
structural model in mines is very complex

Introduction

large and abrupt changes in velocity at
cavities

model varies in time
Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

earthquake source is complex (single
forces, non-DC components)

small changes in source position lead to
large changes in ray propagation, rays can
be strongly curved

radiated wave field is complex
(reflected, converted, scattered waves, head
waves)

Summary: waveform inversion
In general:
• complex Green’s functions can be calculated by 3-D FD codes (accurate model needed!);
Introduction

• sensitive to time shifts due to mislocation or due to inaccurate velocity model

• frequency band of inverted waves can be easily controlled => stability analysis
Waveform
modelling

In particular:
Moment
tensor
inversion

• good network configuration => focal sphere nicely covered

• inversion algorithm:
• optimal with same window length for Green’s functions and data

Summary

• optimal with simultaneous inversion of P- and S-wave, but excluding S-wave coda
• yields high isotropic percentage, higher than amplitude inversion, almost
independently of window length
 promising, but computationally demanding (especially the computation of Green’s
functions with sufficiently small grid point distances)
 will be performed for selected events, not whole database

Thank you

for your
attention!

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Preikestolen_Norge.jpg


Slide 24

Moment tensor inversion at
Pyhasalmi ore mine:
accuracy test using explosions
Daniela Kühn (NORSAR)
V. Vavrycuk (Academy of Sciences of the CR)

AIM 2nd annual meeting, 29-30 Sept 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

Pyhäsalmi ore mine, Finland
• microseismic monitoring:
 since January 2003
 safety of the underground
personnel
 optimisation of mining
process

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

• network:
 12 1-C geophones
+ 6 3-C geophones (ISS)
 3-D geometry
 sampling rate: < 3000 Hz

Summary

owned by Inmet Mining Co.

• events:
 1500 events /months
(including blasting)
 -2 < Mw < 1.5

Inconsistent polarities of P-wave first onset
Moment tensor inversion:
• homogeneous velocity model (as for locations)
• amplitude inversion
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling

Complexity of velocity model
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling: 2D section
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

• E3D: viscoelastic 3-D FD code (Larsen and Schultz, 1995)
• strong interaction with mining cavities: reflection,
scattering, conversion
620 m
• healing of wavefronts

Waveform modelling
synthetic seismograms
- complex waveforms
Introduction

- strong coda

- complex secondary arrivals

Waveform
modelling

- scattering effects stronger
on amplitudes than travel
times,
since
size
of
heterogeneities
(cavities,
access tunnels) same order or
smaller than wavelengths

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

 arrival times computed by
Eikonal solver still fit
(wavefronts heal quickly
after passing a cavitiy)

observed seismograms

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Imaginary
network!
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Influence of proximity to cavity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Real mine
network!

Source depth → ray path
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Ray path → onset polarity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Moment tensor inversion

Amplitude picking
direct wave scattered wave
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

first maximum amplitude = amplitude of the direct wave
direct wave

scattered wave

Summary

energy diffracted
around cavity

?

first maximum amplitude is not always the amplitude of the direct wave

Amplitude vs. waveform inversion
Amplitude inversion:
• homogeneous model of the medium
Introduction

• Green’s functions calculated using ray theory

• inversion of P-wave amplitudes (20-30 amplitudes)
Waveform
modelling

• frequencies: 250-500 Hz
 cannot take into account distortion of rays on focal sphere

Moment
tensor
inversion

 misinterpretation of amplitudes: which one is the direct wave?
Waveform inversion:

Summary

• 3-D heterogeneous model of the medium
• Green’s functions calculated using FD code

• inversion of full waveforms (15-20 waveforms)
• frequencies (at the moment): 25-100 Hz
 inversion is performed in frequency domain
 in principle same inversion algorithm as for amplitude inversion, but run
repeatedly for every frequency band (0.5 Hz steps)

Selected explosions: relocation
expl 1

expl 1

expl 3
Introduction

expl 5
Waveform
modelling

expl 3
Moment
tensor
inversion

expl 5
expl 1

Summary

expl 3

expl 5

Explosions (coords in m):
1) x=8306E y=2312N z=-1238
→ 26 m shift
3) x=8218E y=2192N z=-1352
→ 68 m shift
5) x=8214E y=2168N z=-1356
→ 59 m shift

Examples: good fit

Examples: amplitude misfit

Examples: phase misfit

Inversion results
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

explosion 1

explosion 3

explosion 5

Length of time windows

GF duration [10 ms]

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 1

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 3

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 5

nearly all solutions have high isotropic percentage
best solutions near diagonal
(length of GF time window = length of data time window)
best solutions P –wave + S-wave onset

Explosion 1
Amplitude inversion

Waveform inversion

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

DC = 7%
CLVD = -14%
ISO = 79%

Summary: seismicity in mines
structural model in mines is very complex

Introduction

large and abrupt changes in velocity at
cavities

model varies in time
Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

earthquake source is complex (single
forces, non-DC components)

small changes in source position lead to
large changes in ray propagation, rays can
be strongly curved

radiated wave field is complex
(reflected, converted, scattered waves, head
waves)

Summary: waveform inversion
In general:
• complex Green’s functions can be calculated by 3-D FD codes (accurate model needed!);
Introduction

• sensitive to time shifts due to mislocation or due to inaccurate velocity model

• frequency band of inverted waves can be easily controlled => stability analysis
Waveform
modelling

In particular:
Moment
tensor
inversion

• good network configuration => focal sphere nicely covered

• inversion algorithm:
• optimal with same window length for Green’s functions and data

Summary

• optimal with simultaneous inversion of P- and S-wave, but excluding S-wave coda
• yields high isotropic percentage, higher than amplitude inversion, almost
independently of window length
 promising, but computationally demanding (especially the computation of Green’s
functions with sufficiently small grid point distances)
 will be performed for selected events, not whole database

Thank you

for your
attention!

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Preikestolen_Norge.jpg


Slide 25

Moment tensor inversion at
Pyhasalmi ore mine:
accuracy test using explosions
Daniela Kühn (NORSAR)
V. Vavrycuk (Academy of Sciences of the CR)

AIM 2nd annual meeting, 29-30 Sept 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

Pyhäsalmi ore mine, Finland
• microseismic monitoring:
 since January 2003
 safety of the underground
personnel
 optimisation of mining
process

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

• network:
 12 1-C geophones
+ 6 3-C geophones (ISS)
 3-D geometry
 sampling rate: < 3000 Hz

Summary

owned by Inmet Mining Co.

• events:
 1500 events /months
(including blasting)
 -2 < Mw < 1.5

Inconsistent polarities of P-wave first onset
Moment tensor inversion:
• homogeneous velocity model (as for locations)
• amplitude inversion
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling

Complexity of velocity model
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Waveform modelling: 2D section
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

• E3D: viscoelastic 3-D FD code (Larsen and Schultz, 1995)
• strong interaction with mining cavities: reflection,
scattering, conversion
620 m
• healing of wavefronts

Waveform modelling
synthetic seismograms
- complex waveforms
Introduction

- strong coda

- complex secondary arrivals

Waveform
modelling

- scattering effects stronger
on amplitudes than travel
times,
since
size
of
heterogeneities
(cavities,
access tunnels) same order or
smaller than wavelengths

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

 arrival times computed by
Eikonal solver still fit
(wavefronts heal quickly
after passing a cavitiy)

observed seismograms

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Imaginary
network!
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Comparison 1-D/3-D
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Influence of proximity to cavity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Real mine
network!

Source depth → ray path
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Ray path → onset polarity
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

Moment tensor inversion

Amplitude picking
direct wave scattered wave
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

first maximum amplitude = amplitude of the direct wave
direct wave

scattered wave

Summary

energy diffracted
around cavity

?

first maximum amplitude is not always the amplitude of the direct wave

Amplitude vs. waveform inversion
Amplitude inversion:
• homogeneous model of the medium
Introduction

• Green’s functions calculated using ray theory

• inversion of P-wave amplitudes (20-30 amplitudes)
Waveform
modelling

• frequencies: 250-500 Hz
 cannot take into account distortion of rays on focal sphere

Moment
tensor
inversion

 misinterpretation of amplitudes: which one is the direct wave?
Waveform inversion:

Summary

• 3-D heterogeneous model of the medium
• Green’s functions calculated using FD code

• inversion of full waveforms (15-20 waveforms)
• frequencies (at the moment): 25-100 Hz
 inversion is performed in frequency domain
 in principle same inversion algorithm as for amplitude inversion, but run
repeatedly for every frequency band (0.5 Hz steps)

Selected explosions: relocation
expl 1

expl 1

expl 3
Introduction

expl 5
Waveform
modelling

expl 3
Moment
tensor
inversion

expl 5
expl 1

Summary

expl 3

expl 5

Explosions (coords in m):
1) x=8306E y=2312N z=-1238
→ 26 m shift
3) x=8218E y=2192N z=-1352
→ 68 m shift
5) x=8214E y=2168N z=-1356
→ 59 m shift

Examples: good fit

Examples: amplitude misfit

Examples: phase misfit

Inversion results
Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

explosion 1

explosion 3

explosion 5

Length of time windows

GF duration [10 ms]

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 1

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage
GF duration [10 ms]

ISO percentage

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 3

Data duration [10 ms]

explosion 5

nearly all solutions have high isotropic percentage
best solutions near diagonal
(length of GF time window = length of data time window)
best solutions P –wave + S-wave onset

Explosion 1
Amplitude inversion

Waveform inversion

Introduction

Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

DC = 7%
CLVD = -14%
ISO = 79%

Summary: seismicity in mines
structural model in mines is very complex

Introduction

large and abrupt changes in velocity at
cavities

model varies in time
Waveform
modelling

Moment
tensor
inversion

Summary

earthquake source is complex (single
forces, non-DC components)

small changes in source position lead to
large changes in ray propagation, rays can
be strongly curved

radiated wave field is complex
(reflected, converted, scattered waves, head
waves)

Summary: waveform inversion
In general:
• complex Green’s functions can be calculated by 3-D FD codes (accurate model needed!);
Introduction

• sensitive to time shifts due to mislocation or due to inaccurate velocity model

• frequency band of inverted waves can be easily controlled => stability analysis
Waveform
modelling

In particular:
Moment
tensor
inversion

• good network configuration => focal sphere nicely covered

• inversion algorithm:
• optimal with same window length for Green’s functions and data

Summary

• optimal with simultaneous inversion of P- and S-wave, but excluding S-wave coda
• yields high isotropic percentage, higher than amplitude inversion, almost
independently of window length
 promising, but computationally demanding (especially the computation of Green’s
functions with sufficiently small grid point distances)
 will be performed for selected events, not whole database

Thank you

for your
attention!

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Preikestolen_Norge.jpg