The influence of fluid mobility on seismic velocity dispersion is directly observed in laboratory measurements from seismic to ultrasonic frequencies. A forceddeformation system is used in conjunction with pulse transmission to obtain elastic properties at seismic strain amplitude (10−7) from 5 Hz to 800 kHz. Varying fluid types and saturations document the influence of pore-fluids. The ratio o...

Constructing the seismic image in vertical time, as opposed to depth, eliminates the inherent ambiguity of resolving the vertical P -wave velocity from surface seismic data in transversely isotropic media with a vertical axis of symmetry (VTI media). By ray tracing in the space-time (x-τ)-domain, a traveltime map is built by interpolating the traveltime information along the rays onto a regular...

We analyze the seismic moment-frequency relation in various depth ranges and for different seismic regions, using Flinn-Engdahl’s regionalization of global seismicity. Three earthquake lists of centroid-moment tensor data have been used: the Harvard catalog, the USGS catalog, and the HUANG et al. (1997) catalog of deep earthquakes. The results confirm the universality of the b-values and the ma...

Seismic trace interpolation can be formulated as an underdetermined least squares inverse problem. In order to force interpolation to follow the directions of seismic events, the weighting function is designed to build the interpolated energy along the desired direction. Usually, such a weighting function is built in the Fourier domain. However, when Fourier spectra are aliased, especially in t...

The fidelity of full vector seismic data acquired with systems of three-component (3C) receivers that are rigidly attached to an acquisition device is evaluated. The acquisition device is designed for rapid and cost-effective imaging of the upper 30m of the earth's surface. Multi-mode analysis of full vector seismic data has the potential to provide engineers and geophysicists with near-surface...

Wavefield-based migration velocity analysis using the semblance principle requires computation of images in an extended space in which we can evaluate the imaging consistency as a function of overlapping experiments. Usual industry practice is to assemble those seismic images in common-image-gathers (CIG) which represent reflectivity as a function depth and extensions, e.g. reflection angles. W...

Meng (1997) used the McConnell crosswell data to show that transmitted arrival traveltimes can be extracted from common receiver gathers (CRG) where the effective source is a tube wave generator. In this report I use the McElroy crosswell data to show that reflection events can be extracted from CRG’s where the effective source is a tube wave generator. This result opens the possibility that mo...