eprintid: 2103 rev_number: 11 eprint_status: archive userid: 6 dir: disk0/00/00/21/03 datestamp: 2018-07-23 07:46:44 lastmod: 2018-07-23 07:46:44 status_changed: 2018-07-23 07:46:44 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Gharti, Hom Nath creators_name: Oye, Volker creators_name: Kuhn, Daniela creators_name: Zhao, Peng corp_creators: NORSAR corp_creators: NORSAR corp_creators: NORSAR title: Simultaneous microearthquake location and moment‐tensor estimation using time‐reversal imaging subjects: MP1 subjects: RFi1 subjects: SMU divisions: IP1 full_text_status: none abstract: We use time‐reversal imaging for microearthquake location and investigate the possibility of a simultaneous qualitative moment‐tensor estimation. We cross‐correlate the data with the synthetic strain Green's tensor and stack individually for each moment‐tensor component. The objective function for the source location is then formulated as the squared sum of those stacked components. The maximum value of the objective function corresponds to the estimated source location and origin time. Similarly, the corresponding stacked components at the estimated source location give the entire time history of the qualitative estimation of the moment tensor. We apply the method to synthetic data of various types of moment‐tensor sources computed for a complex and heterogeneous model, namely the Pyhäsalmi ore mine in Finland. We also test the method with the same data adding white noise up to 40% of the absolute maximum. Although the method is computationally intensive, it is fully automatic and can easily be adapted to parallel processing. The preliminary results show that the method is robust and reliable. date: 2011 date_type: published publication: SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2011 volume: 2011 publisher: Society of Exploration Geophysicists pagerange: 1632-1637 id_number: doi:10.1190/1.3627516 issn: 1949-4645 book_title: SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2011 official_url: http://doi.org/10.1190/1.3627516 access_IS-EPOS: limited owner: Publisher citation: Gharti, Hom Nath and Oye, Volker and Kuhn, Daniela and Zhao, Peng (2011) Simultaneous microearthquake location and moment‐tensor estimation using time‐reversal imaging. SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2011, 2011. pp. 1632-1637. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1190/1.3627516