Seismic doublets and multiplets at Polish coal and copper mines |
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Authors: | S?awomir Jerzy Gibowicz |
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Institution: | (1) Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Ksicecia Janusza 64, 01-452 Warszawa, Poland |
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Abstract: | The following criteria for selection of doublets at Polish coal mines were accepted: the difference in magnitude (based on
seismic moment) of two events not larger than 0.15, the distance between their hypocenters not greater than 150 m, and the
time interval between their occurrence not longer than 10 days. Similarly, the criteria for seismic events at copper mines
are: the difference in magnitude not exceeding 0.15, the distance not greater than 200 m, and the time interval not longer
than 20 days. Seismic events from the Wujek and Ziemowit coal mines that occurred between 1993 and 1995, and seismic events
from the Polkowice copper mine that occurred between 1994 and 1996 and from the Rudna copper mine that occurred between 1994
and 2004 were considered. Their source parameters and focal mechanisms were known in most cases from previous studies. Altogether
108 seismic pairs from coal mines and 118 pairs from copper mines were found, forming doublets, triplets and quadruplets,
within the magnitude range from 0.7 to 3.5. The distance and time intervals between two events forming pairs are not dependent
on magnitude of these events.
The focal mechanism of seismic events forming pairs is similar in over 60 percent of pairs at coal mines and in about one
third of pairs at copper mines. Spatial distributions of doublets in particular sections of coal and copper mines display
dominant linear trends, characteristic for a given area, which are often in conformity with the direction of nodal planes
determined by fault plane solution of one or both the events forming a doublet. In such cases, the rupture plane can be discriminated
among the nodal planes. |
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Keywords: | induced seismicity coal and copper mines seismic doublets and multiplets focal mechanism rotation angle rupture plane source parameters |
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