Pushing the limit of earthquake detection with distributed acoustic sensing and template matching: a case study at the Brady geothermal field
Abstract
Template matching has been widely applied in the detection of earthquakes and other seismic events due to its power in detecting weak signals. Recent studies using synthetics have shown that application of template matching to large-N arrays can potentially detect earthquakes substantially below the noise level. Here we apply template matching to the distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) data recorded in the Brady Hot Springs geothermal field, Nevada. Using 5 catalogued events, we detect 116 events and find 68 of them well below the noise level. We confirm 112 events are true earthquakes by examining the patterns of their sensor-to-sensor cross-correlation sections. This demonstrates that the combination of DAS and template matching has capability to detect microseismicity below the noise level, which is unusual for conventional seismic arrays and methods. With the updated catalogue, we observe a surge of earthquakes during the shutdown of a geothermal power plant nearby. In addition, the rapid increases in the downhole pressure record coincide with intense swarms of earthquakes. These observations show a strong correlation between the seismicity frequencies and the downhole pressure changes. Finally, we investigate several factors that may affect the detection performance and compare different strategies for spatial down-sampling, in order tomore »
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- Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1469719
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1613386
- Grant/Contract Number:
- EE0006760; 1722879
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Geophysical Journal International
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Geophysical Journal International Journal Volume: 215 Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 0956-540X
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 58 GEOSCIENCES; geochemistry & geophysics; earthquake source observations; induced seismicity; seismic instruments
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Li, Zefeng, and Zhan, Zhongwen. Pushing the limit of earthquake detection with distributed acoustic sensing and template matching: a case study at the Brady geothermal field. United Kingdom: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1093/gji/ggy359.
Li, Zefeng, & Zhan, Zhongwen. Pushing the limit of earthquake detection with distributed acoustic sensing and template matching: a case study at the Brady geothermal field. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggy359
Li, Zefeng, and Zhan, Zhongwen. Mon .
"Pushing the limit of earthquake detection with distributed acoustic sensing and template matching: a case study at the Brady geothermal field". United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggy359.
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title = {Pushing the limit of earthquake detection with distributed acoustic sensing and template matching: a case study at the Brady geothermal field},
author = {Li, Zefeng and Zhan, Zhongwen},
abstractNote = {Template matching has been widely applied in the detection of earthquakes and other seismic events due to its power in detecting weak signals. Recent studies using synthetics have shown that application of template matching to large-N arrays can potentially detect earthquakes substantially below the noise level. Here we apply template matching to the distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) data recorded in the Brady Hot Springs geothermal field, Nevada. Using 5 catalogued events, we detect 116 events and find 68 of them well below the noise level. We confirm 112 events are true earthquakes by examining the patterns of their sensor-to-sensor cross-correlation sections. This demonstrates that the combination of DAS and template matching has capability to detect microseismicity below the noise level, which is unusual for conventional seismic arrays and methods. With the updated catalogue, we observe a surge of earthquakes during the shutdown of a geothermal power plant nearby. In addition, the rapid increases in the downhole pressure record coincide with intense swarms of earthquakes. These observations show a strong correlation between the seismicity frequencies and the downhole pressure changes. Finally, we investigate several factors that may affect the detection performance and compare different strategies for spatial down-sampling, in order to provide helpful insights for future large-N design and data processing.},
doi = {10.1093/gji/ggy359},
journal = {Geophysical Journal International},
number = 3,
volume = 215,
place = {United Kingdom},
year = {Mon Sep 03 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Mon Sep 03 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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