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Seismicity in Mines

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Editors:
  1. Sławomir J. Gibowicz

    1. Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VI
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  2. Introduction

    • Sławomir J. Gibowicz
    Pages 283-284

  3. Fred Leighton Memorial Workshop on Mining Induced Seismicity August 30, 1987

    • R. Paul Young
    Pages 285-293

  4. Analysis of Exceptionally Large Tremors in Two Gold Mining Districts of South Africa

    • A. McGarr, J. Bicknell, E. Sembera, R. W. E. Green
    Pages 295-307

  5. The Mechanism of Small Mining Tremors from Amplitude Inversion

    • Jan Šilený
    Pages 309-324

  6. Source Mechanism of a Large Scale Gas Outburst at Sunagawa Coal Mine in Japan

    • K. Sato, Y. Fujii
    Pages 325-343

  7. Mining-Related and Tectonic Seismicity in the East Mountain Area Wasatch Plateau, Utah, U.S.A.

    • Donna J. Williams, Walter J. Arabasz
    Pages 345-368

  8. Observations of Mine Seismicity in the Eastern Wasatch Plateau, Utah, U.S.A.: A Possible Case of Implosional Failure

    • Ivan G. Wong, James R. Humphrey, Janet A. Adams, Walter J. Silva
    Pages 369-405

  9. Microearthquake Activity Associated with Underground Coal-Mining in Buchanan County, Virginia, U.S.A.

    • G. A. Bollinger
    Pages 407-413

  10. The Alabama, U.S.A., Seismic Event and Strata Collapse of May 7, 1986

    • Leland Timothy Long, Charles W. Copeland
    Pages 415-421

  11. Induced Seismicity in Mines in Canada—An Overview

    • Henry S. Hasegawa, Robert J. Wetmiller, Don. J. Gendzwill
    Pages 423-453

  12. Analysis of Mining-Induced Microseismic Events at Strathcona Mine, Sudbury, Canada

    • R. P. Young, S. Talebi, D. A. Hutchins, T. I. Urbancic
    Pages 455-474

  13. Microseismicity in a Flooded Potash Mine, the Hope Mine, Federal Republic of Germany

    • C. Heick, D. Flach
    Pages 475-496

  14. Changes in the Early Part of the Seismic Coda due to Localized Scatterers: The Estimation of Q in a Stope Environment

    • A. Cichowicz, R. W. E. Green
    Pages 497-511

  15. Seismological Models for Mining-Induced Seismic Events

    • W. Kuhnt, P. Knoll, H. Grosser, H.-J. Behrens
    Pages 513-521

  16. Continuous Evaluation of Seismic Hazard Induced by the Deposit Extraction in Selected Coal Mines in Poland

    • E. Głowacka, A. Kijko
    Pages 523-533

  17. Induced Gravity Anomalies and Seismic Energy as a Basis for Prediction of Mining Tremors

    • Zbigniew Fajklewicz, Krzysztof Jakiel
    Pages 535-552

  18. Application of Singular Value Decomposition Method for Location of Seismic Events in Mines

    • J. Niewiadomski
    Pages 553-570

  19. Geotomographic Imaging in the Study of Mining Induced Seismicity

    • R. P. Young, D. A. Hutchins, J. McGaughey, J. Towers, D. Jansen, M. Bostock
    Pages 571-596

  20. Seismic Tomography in the Ostrava-Karviná Mining Region

    • Jiří Jech
    Pages 597-608
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About this book

Recent seismological research has focused on processes other than pure shear failure (double-couple) as an alternative mechanism for some types of seismic events. This has been stimulated by what appears to be anomalous focal mecha­ nisms observed for several earthquakes of possible volcanic nature in the 1980 Mammoth Lakes, California sequence (JULIAN and SIPKIN, 1985; SIPKIN, 1986). Although studies have concentrated on earthquakes associated with magmatic processes, possible non-double-couple seismic failure has been observed, but not widely known, in cases of mine seismicity in the past three decades. Such cases have occurred on a world-wide basis; however, no cases until now have been observed in the United States. The existence of non-double-couple failure in mine seismicity has been controversial as it has been for tectonic/volcanic earthquakes. Several of the benchmark studies of mine seismicity in the deep South African gold mines have resulted in the belief that no fundamental distinction in the source mechanism exists between tectonic earthquakes and rock bursts (MCGARR, 1984); both types of events are the result of pure shear failure. However, the reported cases of implo­ sional focal mechanisms for mine seismicity continue to increase in number and prolong the controversy. During the summer of 1984, a three-dimensional, high resolution micro­ earthquake network was operated by Woodward-Clyde Consultants (WCC) in the vicinity of two coal mines beneath Gentry Mountain in the eastern Wasatch Plateau of central Utah.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

    Sławomir J. Gibowicz

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Seismicity in Mines

  • Editors: Sławomir J. Gibowicz

  • Series Title: Pageoph Topical Volumes

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-9270-4

  • Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Birkhäuser Verlag Basel 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7643-2273-1Published: 01 January 1989

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-0348-9270-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 2504-3625

  • Series E-ISSN: 2504-3633

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 404

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Geophysics/Geodesy

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