Questions tagged [seismology]
For questions about the study of earthquakes and various seismic sources.
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Do we know anything about the nature of Earth's core that hasn't come from magnetic or seismic measurements?
There is much known about Earth's core from painstaking analysis of seismic data, and from detailed magnetic field maps and trends over time.
Are there any other measurements that have contributed to ...
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Performing time-frequency analysis (FTAN)
I am trying to do ambient noise tomography and I am quite confused on how to perform time-frequency analysis (FTAN) as shown in figure 13b and 13d of this paper by Bensen et al.. I am using Python and ...
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What are today's methods in calculating the Local Magnitude of earthquakes?
I'm no expert and barely have any idea about this. But I want to know if the methods in calculating the Local Magnitude can only be done manually? I mean manually by first reading a seismograph, ...
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Where can I find broadband seismic reflection data?
or what type of companies should I contact to ask for the data?
This data would be produced from Seismic Vibroseis survey trucks which are mostly used to locate oil and gas.
I doubt most oil and gas ...
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Small earthquake happening every night at the exact same time
I experience this weird feeling for the last three months. Every night, at exactly 3AM I can feel small earthquake and I could not find anything on the internet related to it. Does anyone have any ...
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How to read and plot seismic waveform data in Ascii format using Obspy?
I wish to plot seismic waveform data using Obspy, bu they are in Ascii format. Is it possible to read and plot Ascii file using Obspy?
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Using an accelerometer as a geophone to conduct a seismic survey
I am doing a capstone project for a sensor systems course and I would like to write a python program to acquire, process and present seismic data like that of seismic surveys. Is it possible using ...
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Zoeppritz equations derivation
I have been long looking for the derivations and step by step explanation of Zoeppritz matrix but either internet is full of final versions or I can’t find it...I would be very thankful if anyone can ...
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Can a rock have a Vp of less than 1000 m/s and need blasting to excavate?
I have run a 60 m refraction seismic line on a mountain summit. The environment was noisy (wind would be the principal agent) and quite difficult to pick first arrivals. It resulted in 800 m/s.
A ...
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Is it reasonable to approximate the swinging building (base of the building) during an earthquake to a simple harmonic motion?
I am thinking of making a model of swinging building during earthquake and study the methods to minimize the swinging.
So does it even makes sense to approximate the swinging buildings (the base of ...
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Wave train 200 m/s meaning
I ran a 60 m line intended for surficial seismic refraction. Energization with hammer. 12 (10 hz vertical 5 m spaced) geophones and 5 shots (15 m spaced). Record length 0.5 s. Thanks to a borehole ...
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Where can I download historical sesimic data in CSV/Excel format for processing in R?
I'm not familiar with these kinds of data sets but I'm looking for some data for a project I'm working on. Essentially I would like multiple time series of seismic data from different stations over ...
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wave speed is smaller than both horizontal wave speed and vertical wave speed?
I am new to GIS and just get the idea of slowness. I can understand why people need the slowness in GIS rather than just the reciprocal of velocity. However, I feel the definition of slowness is weird ...
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reverse time migration for wave equation PDE using SBP-SAT
I'm stuck implementing a reverse time migration technique, the PDE(partial differential equation) being implemented is an acoustic wave equation, The numerical method being used is a FD(finite ...
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What are “young thrust faults” and why are they significant on the Moon?
The abstract of the new Nature Geoscience paper Shallow seismic activity and young thrust faults on the Moon reads:
The discovery of young thrust faults on the Moon is evidence of recent tectonic ...
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How does multiple layer seismic reflection work? How do we distinguish arrivals from different layers and their velocities?
Whenever we are investigating multiple layer interfaces in a seismic reflection survey the root-mean-squared velocity is often employed to deduce travel time to a certain n-th layer and also to deduce ...
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Travel Times for Seismic Wave Types - Why reflected t-x plot curves
I do not understand how the reflected wave in a seismic survey has a steepening slope (slows down) Please bear with me as I lay out my thoughts because I feel like I can grasp all of this except this ...
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Near-Surface Investigations: FWI vs. MASW
MASW is a common processing method for civil/geotechnical and even for oil/gas exploration (usually weathering static corrections) applications. In my experience, it seems to work well for most ...
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Love-Wave Propagation
Love-waves cannot exist in a half-space. Layering must be present and there also must be accompanied impedance contrasts associated with the layering.
Because layering naturally induces seismic ...
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Does the shear modulus of silicate minerals vary significantly with changes in P and T?
I know that the bulk modulus, K, varies with pressure and temperature for silicate minerals and liquids, but what about the shear modulus? If so, is the change drastic for changes from standard ...
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Determining the spatial orientation of a fault given ground acceleration magnitude in different directions
Accelerographs measure ground acceleration in three different components of motion: east-west, north-south, and vertically (up-down). I know that fault orientation is important here, so let's say we ...
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Rayleigh waves generation
Good day,
I do not fully understand the physical mechanism of formation of Rayleigh waves at the free surface. While their derivation is quite clear and obey free-boundary conditions, it is not clear ...
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How sensitive are typical seismometers?
NASA recently landed a seismometer on Mars, with what sounds an impressive detection ability, with press reports gushing it is "able to detect vibrations smaller than a hydrogen atom." A more ...
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Could an earthquake create a design in a sand pendulum?
Is it possible for an earthquake to generate such a design in a sand pendulum during an earthquake? I saw an article online describing the story of a shop owner finding one of his pendulums had ...
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Difference between landslide waves and earth quake waves
I am new to this field, recently started working on landslide monitoring mainly in signal processing part. I have the following questions?
1.Will each land slide and every vibration have p wave, s ...
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Quality control in Seismic Acquisition - How much data is required?
When it comes to land or marine acquisition (oil exploration, for instance), I can see from literature that quality control (QC) is performed during the survey to ensure that the seismic traces ...
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Using acoustics to measure the composition, density, and hardness of layers
I am an engineering student at Alfred University and some fellow classmates and I are doing a competition, but one of the tasks we need to complete is autonomously measuring the composition, density, ...
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Could glacial melt alter plate tectonic movement?
Let's say some event caused runaway glacial melt, and removed half of the ice currently locked away in specific areas of the planet. Would the significant weight changes on various plates and fault ...
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Why do major earthquakes keep happening in Lombok recently?
So I've been following the situation in Lombok, Indonesia from both online news and friends on the ground. One thing that I can't seem to figure out is why there are so many earthquakes over an ...
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statistical methods for analysis of stability tailored for multiple short time series
I am a graduate student of Ecology working on a species diversity problem and am not much educated in time series methods. i have searched 3 general time-series books and could not find a clue on how ...
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Seismology - PPV / VDV from geophone waveform data
I'm using an inexpensive seismometer to try and measure the effects of local HGV traffic on buildings. The device is connected to a Raspberry PI that has a Cirrus Logic Audio Card. The signal is fed ...
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What does 'reghosted' mean in a seismic cube label?
I came across to a seismic volume labeled as reghosted. In my understanding, a seismic survey is deghosted as part of a processing step. Then I wonder why one would like to reghosted the data? Is ...
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Need seismic data and digital well log data from the same area?
I am currently working on a project that involves the input of seismic attributes (instantaneous amplitude, instantaneous frequency etc.) to a machine learning/deep learning model (eg. A Neural ...
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Open source well information viewer
I am in the middle of a hobbyist experiment and would like suggestions on an open source HTML viewer for mud loggging, FMIs, lithology and seismic. I have used INT before but for this project I would ...
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Which type of seismic sensors usually used in Earthquake Early Warning?
As I'm a newbie in seismology and related area, I would like to know which type of seismic sensors usually used in earthquake early warning systems?
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What is the relationship between raw seismic data, CMP Stacking, NMO & Machine Learning
I recently joined a geophysics project to assist with some of their machine learning modeling but am trying to gather the domain knowledge required to participate.
Something I don't quite understand ...
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2018 Swan Islands earthquake tsunami
How come the strike-slip 7.6 M earthquake, occurring January 9th, 2018, produced no tsunami? Has there ever been any produced in this region?
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Acoustic impedance in geophysical context
What is the intuition behind acoustic impedance? Yes, I know that it is the opposition to a seismic wave travelling in the medium. But why it is defined as density × velocity?
The velocity of a ...
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Problem in identification of seismic event?
I have taken the following synthetic seismogram, generated using Marmousi model, from the Madagascar website.
I could not understand the origin of linear events (present in shot3 after 2 sec) and ...
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How to calculate seismic moment from seismograms?
I was told that
Seismic moment is determined by the observed spectral levels of the receiving waves.
But I don't quite understand what it means.
How is this done in practice? Do you need ...
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Lights associated with earthquakes?
According to the New Madrid, Missouri web site, during the 1811-1812 earthquakes there were reports of lights coming from the ground due to quartz crystals being squeezed. They call this phenomena “...
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SEGD and SEGY recorded data
What is the difference between a segd recorded data and a segy recorded data and can we convert from segd to segy and vice versa?
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Effects of Mexican Earthquake in San Andreas Fault Line
Could the recent 8.1 Magnitude Earthquake at the Cocos and Nazca plates off the Mexican coast have a knock on effect to the Pacific and Juan de Fuca Plates further north at the San Andreas Fault Line?
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How can I calculate the sensitivity of a seismometer?
I would like to know if a specific seismometer can measure 1 micron/sec velocity. I have a few specs from the datasheet but I'm not a seismologist and am trying to figure out how to relate the specs ...
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Is the centre of Italy still at risk of earthquakes?
I am working on a project which involves taking over a business based in Italy. It is a small village situated near Rieti (Sabina Hills) called Casperia and I am wondering if it is on a fault line? Is ...
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What causes ringing effect when using corner filter?
I used the corner filter (band pass) with this frequency values (8,10,45,50). I get ringing effect on the data. my questions are:
what is the name of this effect and the cause?
should be removed and ...
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Seismometer records ground displacement or acceleration
I believe Seismometers record ground displacement. However, I have also read in certain articles that this can be ground displacement or acceleration depending on the frequency of the seismometer. ...
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How to calculate cumulative moment magnitude?
What is the proper way to calculate cumuluative moment magnitude if I know the moment magnitude of several earthquakes?
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How to interpret seismic interferometry data?
Here is a screenshot of coseismic interferometry measurements of the 2015 Nepal earthquake. What does it mean?
The star is the epicenter of the earthquake. The screenshot was taken from the UNOSAT ...
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Comparing the 4th of August 1998 earthquake to the 16th of April 2016 earthquake in Ecuador
I'm doing an assignment where I'm comparing the two mentioned earthquakes, and trying to figure out which factors played a role in the amount of casualties. In the 1998 earthquake there were only ...
