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Instructor: Ali Osman Oncel

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2TH STUDENT PRESENTATION DAY- November 22
  • 1-D Shear wave velocities by Microtremor Survey

    - what is the recommended way to seperate rayligh waves from other seismic waves?

    a simple, two-dimensional slowness-frequency (p-f) transform of a microtremor record can separate Rayleigh waves from other seismic arrivals, and allow recognition of true phase velocity against apparent velocities.

    - what is the penetrated depth in regarding to the extension of spread length?

    since  the total array length can vary from 300 ft to 600 ft, the 

    maximum depth of resolution is about one-third to one-half the length of the array which is equal to 100-200 ft.

    -Why the equipment includes vertical Geophone?

     In order to record the P-wave.

    -why the maximum depth of resolution is about one-third to one-fifth of the length of the array?

    Because of Rayleigh criteria.

    -what are the essential factors that allow exploration equipment to record surface-wave velocity dispersion, with a minimum of field effort?

    The use of a single geophone sensor at each channel, rather than a geophone “group array”, and the use of a linear spread of 12 or more geophone sensor channels.

    -what does the ReMi processing involve?

     1- Velocity Spectral Analysis

    2- Rayleigh Phase-Velocity Dispersion Picking

    3- Shear-Velocity Modeling

     

 

  •  Refraction interpretation

    Discussion:

    What is the efficiency of refraction microtemor  in depth?

    It goes to about 200m 

    What is provided benefit in terms of cost when RMIR are used?

    The other methods are expensive  

    Why do we need to use ReMi method rather then the other techniques?

    Because the other methods are expensive

    What is the P-F analysis?

    It can separate rally wave from other waves

    How could they get benefit from the earthquake?

    They get data

     What do you mean by rosrine?

    Its name of place in Nivada

     

3TH STUDENT PRESENTATION DAY-December 13

New Seismic Imaging of the Coso Geothermal Field, Eastern California - Jeff Unruh, Satish Pullammanappallil, Bill Honjas, and Frank Monastero
New multifold seismic reflection data from the central Coso Range, eastern California, image brittle faults and other structures in Mesozoic crystalline rocks that host a producing geothermal field. The reflection data were processed in two steps that...
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Presenter: Hasan Ramadhan-Presenter

Faster, Better: Shear-Wave velocity to 100 meters depth from refraction microtremor arrays - John Louie
Paper describing the technique behind SeisOpt ReMi software analysis...
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Presenter: Ahmed Al Zawwad

New Seismic Imaging of the Coso Geothermal Field, Eastern California - Jeff Unruh, Satish Pullammanappallil, Bill Honjas, and Frank Monastero
New multifold seismic reflection data from the central Coso Range, eastern California, image brittle faults and other structures in Mesozoic crystalline rocks that host a producing geothermal field. The reflection data were processed in two steps that...
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Presenter: Asaad Al-Zawwad

 

Geop480: Fall 2006