eprintid: 1337 rev_number: 35 eprint_status: archive userid: 2 dir: disk0/00/00/13/37 datestamp: 2014-11-21 13:14:24 lastmod: 2017-02-08 12:21:38 status_changed: 2015-04-27 12:10:43 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Lesniak, Andrzej creators_name: Pszczola, Grzegorz creators_id: lesniak@agh.edu.pl creators_id: gpszczola@poczta.onet.pl corp_creators: Department of Geoinformatics and Applied Computer Science, Faculty of Geology, Geophysics and Environmental Protection, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland title: Combined mine tremors source location and error evaluation in the Lubin Copper Mine (Poland) ispublished: pub subjects: MP1 subjects: RP3 subjects: SMU divisions: EPOS-ESI3 full_text_status: none keywords: Mine tremors location; Non-linear optimization; Error estimation; Monte-Carlo methods abstract: A modified method of mine tremors location used in Lubin Copper Mine is presented in the paper. In mines where an intensive exploration is carried out a high accuracy source location technique is usually required. The effect of the flatness of the geophones array, complex geological structure of the rock mass and intense exploitation make the location results ambiguous in such mines. In the present paper an effective method of source location and location's error evaluations are presented, combining data from two different arrays of geophones. The first consists of uniaxial geophones spaced in the whole mine area. The second is installed in one of the mining panels and consists of triaxial geophones. The usage of the data obtained from triaxial geophones allows to increase the hypocenter vertical coordinate precision. The presented two-step location procedure combines standard location methods: P-waves directions and P-waves arrival times. Using computer simulations the efficiency of the created algorithm was tested. The designed algorithm is fully non-linear and was tested on the multilayered rock mass model of the Lubin Copper Mine, showing a computational better efficiency than the traditional P-wave arrival times location algorithm. In this paper we present the complete procedure that effectively solves the non-linear location problems, i.e. the mine tremor location and measurement of the error propagation. date: 2008-08-01 date_type: published publication: Tectonophysics volume: 456 number: 1-2 publisher: Elsevier pagerange: 16-27 id_number: DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2007.04.012 refereed: TRUE issn: 0040-1951 official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2007.04.012 access_IS-EPOS: limited owner: Publisher citation: Lesniak, Andrzej and Pszczola, Grzegorz (2008) Combined mine tremors source location and error evaluation in the Lubin Copper Mine (Poland). Tectonophysics, 456 (1-2). pp. 16-27. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2007.04.012