Seismic interferometry allows one to create a virtual source inside a medium, assuming a receiver is present at the position of the virtual source. We discuss a method that creates a virtual source inside a medium from reflection data measured at the surface, without needing a receiver inside the medium and, hence, going beyond seismic interferometry. In addition to the reflection data, an esti...

bandar abbas (center of hormozgan province) is the most important port city in the south of iran because of its historical places, cultural, economic, social and political importance. high risk of earthquake occurrence in this city and its province indicates the necessity of surveying the seismic vulnerability of buildings. the object of this paper is collected from existing buildings, compiled...

S U M M A R Y We decompose a general seismic potency tensor into isotropic tensor, double-couple tensor and compensated linear vector dipole using the eigenvectors and eigenvalues of the full tensor. Two dimensionless parameters are used to quantify the size of the isotropic and compensated linear vector dipole components. The parameters have well-defined finite ranges and are suited for non-li...

Conventional crosswell surveys are expensive because a source must be placed downhole, which means that the hole must be prepped and placed off-line for a number of days. We suggest an interesting but unproven alternative: place a source on the surface, drop a simple obstruction-like device downhole that scatters tube wave arrivals from the surface source, and use the scattered tube waves energ...

I present the theory of interferometric imaging (II). Interferometric imaging is any algorithm that images crosscorrelated data for the reflectivity or source distribution. As examples, I show that II can image arbitrary reflectivity distributions by migrating ghost reflections in passive seismic data, generalize the receiver-function imaging method used by seismologists, and migrate free-surfa...

An experimental program was run by the Centre for Marine Science and Technology of Curtin University between March 1996 and October 1999 to study the environmental implications of offshore seismic survey noise. This work was initiated and sponsored by the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association. The program: • characterised air gun signal measurements; modelled air gun array...

This srudy has demonstrated how artificial neural networks (ANNs) can be used to characterize seismic sources using high-frequency regional seismic data. We have taken the novel approach of using ANNs as a research tool for obtaining seismic source information, specifically depth of focus for earthquakes and ripple-fire characteristics for economic blasts, rather than as just a feature classifi...

Previous authors have tried to image seismic reflectivity by crosscorrelating passive seismic data, and treating the resultant correlograms as active source seismograms. We provide a mathematical framework for working with passive seismic correlograms that is both appropriate for V (x , y, z) media, and arbitrary source location. Under this framework, correlograms can be migrated with an imagin...

The California Integrated Seismic Network uses a large array of expensive seismometers that measure ground motion. However, the network is unable to provide reliable real-time source estimation due to the sparseness of the sensors. The Community Seismic Network project at Caltech plans to create a dense seismic network by leveraging small, inexpensive accelerometers attached to personal compute...