A large-scale data set including time-lapse (4D) elastic attributes and electrical resistivity is generated with the purpose of testing algorithms for reservoir modeling, reservoir characterization, production forecasting, and especially joint time-lapse monitoring using seismic as well as electromagnetic data. The Stanford VI reservoir, which was originally created by Castro et al. (2005), is ...

[1] Much progress has been made over the past several decades in delineating the structure of subducting slabs, but several key aspects of their dynamics remain poorly constrained. Major unsolved problems in subduction geodynamics include those related to mantle wedge viscosity and rheology, slab hydration and dehydration, mechanical coupling between slabs and the ambient mantle, the geometry o...

Seismic imaging has many applications in civil engineering, risk hazard, waste storage monitoring, oil exploration and tectonophysics. Among the different seismic imaging methods the full waveform inversion aims to exploit the full information content of seismic data through the complete resolution of the partial differential wave equation. Once the wave equation has been solved for each seismi...

Broader Impacts. The Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) conducts a broad program of earthquake system science that seeks to develop a predictive understanding of earthquake processes with a practical mission aimed at providing society with improved understanding of seismic hazards. In partnership with earthquake engineers, SCEC researchers are developing the ability to conduct end-to-...

Finite difference is a simple, fast and effective numerical method for seismic wave modeling, and has been widely used in forward waveform inversion and reverse time migration. However, intensive calculation of three-dimensional seismic forward modeling has been restricting the industrial application of 3D pre-stack reverse time migration and inversion. Aiming at this problem, in this paper, a ...

Computer-aided fault imaging and interpretation is a fundamental tool for subsurface structure characterization and modeling, and the existing methods are primarily based on seismic discontinuity analysis (e.g., coherence and semblance) that evaluates the lateral variation of waveform and/or amplitude. However, such attributes have a limited resolution on subtle faults without apparent displace...

In an attempt to better understand the impact that large mining shots will have on verifying compliance with the international, worldwide, Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT, no nuclear explosion tests), a series of seismic and videographic experiments has been conducted during the past two years at the Black Thunder Coal Mine. Personnel from the mine and Los Alamos National Laboratory have co...

The presence of natural fractures in reservoir rock can significantly enhance gas production, especially in tight gas formations. Any general knowledge of the existence, location, orientation, spatial density, and connectivity of natural fractures, as well as general reservoir structure, that can be obtained prior to active seismic acquisition and drilling can be exploited to identify key areas...

Within the context of seismic wave propagation, fractures can be described as thin layers or linear-slip interfaces. In this paper, numerical simulations of elastic wave propagation in a medium with a single fracture represented by these two models are performed by 2D finite-difference codes: a variable-grid isotropic code for the thin-layer model and a regular-grid anisotropic code for the lin...

One of the most effective ways to deal with source-generated coherent noise, which often contaminates seismic reflection records, is to record the data in the field using spatial sampling small enough to avoid aliasing the highest frequency components of the lowest-velocity surface wave energy. The offending noise can then be effectively estimated and removed by application of various processin...