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  The QuakeMatch Toolbox: Using waveform similarity to enhance the analysis of microearthquake sequences at Swiss geothermal projects

Toledo, T., Simon, V., Kraft, T., Antunes, V., Herrmann, M., Villiger, L., Diehl, T. (2023): The QuakeMatch Toolbox: Using waveform similarity to enhance the analysis of microearthquake sequences at Swiss geothermal projects, XXVIII General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) (Berlin 2023).
https://doi.org/10.57757/IUGG23-3821

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Item Permalink: https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5020724 Version Permalink: https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5020724_2
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Toledo, Tania1, Author
Simon, Verena1, Author
Kraft, Toni1, Author
Antunes, Veronica1, Author
Herrmann, Marcus1, Author
Villiger, Linus1, Author
Diehl, Tobias1, Author
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1IUGG 2023, General Assemblies, 1 General, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), External Organizations, ou_5011304              

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 Abstract: Many Swiss microearthquake sequences have been analyzed using relative location techniques, which often allowed constraining active fault planes and tectonic processes that drive seismicity. Yet, often the number of located earthquakes was too small to infer details of the space-time evolution of the sequences or their statistical properties, and thus resolve clear seismicity patterns and their driving mechanisms. We present a nearly automatic workflow that combines well-established seismological analysis techniques to improve the completeness of detected and located earthquakes of a sequence. Starting from a manual catalog (magnitude of completeness, Mc ≈ 1.0−1.5), we assemble a template set and perform a matched filter analysis on a single station with highest SNR. This allows us to detect events of local magnitude ML < 0.0. The waveform similarity is further exploited to derive detection magnitudes. The enhanced catalog is then statistically analyzed to derive high-resolution temporal evolutions of the Gutenberg−Richter a- and b-values, and consequently the occurrence probability of larger events. Strong events are located using relative double-difference, which usually improves the number of well-relocated events by a factor of 2−5. This workflow allows us to significantly enhance the analysis of spatiotemporal behavior of natural and induced microearthquake sequences, which we use to monitor commercial and scientific fluid injections in near real-time. We implemented this workflow in the open-source Python/PostgreSQL toolbox QuakeMatch. We discuss the capabilities of QuakeMatch with examples of induced microearthquake sequences associated with various geothermal projects monitored by the Swiss Seismological Service in the framework of the GEOBEST2020+ project.

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Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 2023-07-112023-07-11
 Publication Status: Finally published
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 Identifiers: DOI: 10.57757/IUGG23-3821
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Title: XXVIII General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG)
Place of Event: Berlin
Start-/End Date: 2023-07-11 - 2023-07-20

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Title: XXVIII General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG)
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