Accurate location of synthetic acoustic emissions and location sensitivity to relocation methods, velocity perturbations, and seismic anisotropy

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 165, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 235-254

  Jones, G A ^a,c   Nippress, S E J ^a   Rietbrock, A ^a   Reyes Montes, J M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Applied Seismology Consultants   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic emission; Earthquake; Relocation; Seismic anisotropy

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSION; ALGORITHM; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; BRITTLE FAILURE; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; ERROR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; ROCK MASS RESPONSE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY;

EID: 42549093941     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-008-0303-2     Document Type: Article

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