growing environmental and social concerns, both on the part of decision makers and public opinion, have brought a new perspective to the perception of hazard assessments a valid alternative in the long-term, and an effective complement in short and medium terms, to traditional design procedure for a resistant and safe environment. results of the gradual development of research on the probabilis...

Local seismic attributes measure seismic signal characteristics not instantaneously at each signal point and not globally across a data window but locally in the neighborhood of each point. I define local attributes with the help of regularized inversion and demonstrate their usefulness for measuring local frequencies of seismic signals and local similarity between different datasets. I use sha...

Wavefield propagation in an inhomogoneous medium is a complex phenomena, that must be understood if we are to extract information about both the sedimentary structures of prospective hydrocarbon provinces, and the elastic properties of the rocks and fluids of interest. A cursory examination of historically published “seismic survey planning” literature yields an overwhelming emphasis upon funda...

Ground response analyses are mostly used for the development of design response spectra in the modern earthquake engineering. After 1999 Marmara Earthquake, the damages were mostly related with unavailable soil conditions and this unavailability were analysed according to liquefaction analysis. The other analyses which cover the dynamic soil properties were not studied in detail. In this study,...

Seismic acquisition footprint generally consists of modulations in recorded amplitudes that are spatially correlated to the surface locations of sources and receivers used in a survey. These amplitude variations obscure the true reflection response of the subsurface. In this study, synthetic seismic data were produced using numerical modelling code written in MATLAB. An “exhaustive” dataset was...

Oil and gas exploration decisions are made based on inferences obtained from seismic data interpretation. While 3D seismic data become widespread and the data-sets get larger, the demand for automation to speed up the seismic interpretation process is increasing as well. However, the development of intelligent tools which can do more to assist interpreters has been difficult due to low informat...