<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><font color="#ff0000"><span style="font-size:12.6667px"><b>New Frontiers in Characterization of Sub-Catalog Microseismicity: Application to Fluid-Driven Earthquake Swarms Beneath Long Valley Caldera, California</b></span></font><br><br><b>Dr. Dave Shelly, USGS Earthquake Science Center, Menlo Park, CA</b><br><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.6667px"><b><br></b></span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><span></span></p>Microseismicity often conveys the most direct information
about active processes in the earth’s subsurface. However, routine network
processing typically leaves most earthquakes uncharacterized. These
“sub-catalog” events can provide critical clues to ongoing processes in the
source region. To address this issue, we have developed waveform-based
processing that leverages the existing catalog of earthquakes to detect and
characterize events absent in routine catalogs.
Using large-scale waveform cross-correlation between cataloged events
with the continuous data stream, we 1) identify events with similar waveform
signatures in the continuous data across multiple stations, 2) precisely
measure relative time lags across these stations for both P- and S-waves, and
3) estimate the relative polarity between events by the sign of the peak
absolute value correlations and its height above the secondary peak. This final step facilitates robust focal
mechanism estimation for large populations of tiny earthquakes, addressing a
common shortcoming in microseismicity analyses (Shelly et al., JGR, 2016). Depending on the application, we can
characterize 2-10 times as many events as included in the initial catalog. Application to a 2014 swarm in Long Valley
Caldera, California, illuminates complex patterns of faulting that would have
otherwise remained obscured. Together,
these patterns imply strong interactions between fluid diffusion and faulting
processes in the crust. <span style="font-size:12.6667px"><br></span><div bgcolor="white" lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-8651062991425879187WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"><br></span><u></u><u></u></p></div></div><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Thursday, January 25th, 2018</span></b><br><br><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">10-11 am </span></b><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">(Mountain Time)</span></b></div><div class="gmail_quote"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Entry Level <span class="gmail-m_-8651062991425879187gmail-m-5774647939884066761gmail-m-4171596897656218249m9106775657748341738gmail-m-1921791487083127966gmail-m4140643564653640769m-4556382912284060029m2261340191774375389gmail-m3025069362589959092gmail-m-8968070735390492279m4896026561608388806gm">Seminar</span> Room</span></b></div><div class="gmail_quote"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></b><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">USGS G</span></b><b style="font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">eologic Hazards Science Center</b><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">1711 Illinois Street, Golden, CO</span></b><br><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.6667px"><br></span></font><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt">*Note: Please arrive </span><u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt">~5 minutes early</u><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt"> and </span><u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt">bring photo ID</u><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt"> for airport-style security </span><wbr style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt">measures now in place at the USGS building.</span><br><span style="font-size:12.6667px"><br></span><span style="font-size:10pt">Thank you,</span><br><span class="gmail-m_-8651062991425879187gmail-m-5774647939884066761gmail-m-4171596897656218249m9106775657748341738gmail-m6925426022411937115m7055967733504661449gmail-m-8968070735390492279m4896026561608388806gmail-m3918809983636524111m7068817575649352729m-6172873775242136948gmail-m-"><span style="font-size:10pt">GHSC</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span class="gmail-m_-8651062991425879187gmail-m-5774647939884066761gmail-m-4171596897656218249m9106775657748341738gmail-m6925426022411937115m7055967733504661449gmail-m-8968070735390492279m4896026561608388806gmail-m3918809983636524111m7068817575649352729m-6172873775242136948gmail-m-"><span style="font-size:10pt">Seminar</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Committee </span><br><span style="font-size:12.6667px"><br></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Mirus, Ben - </span><a href="mailto:bbmirus@usgs.gov" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">bbmirus@usgs.gov</span></a><br><span style="font-size:10pt">Josh Rigler - </span><a href="mailto:erigler@usgs.gov" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt">erigler@usgs.gov</span></a><br><span style="font-size:10pt">Oliver Boyd - </span><a href="mailto:olboyd@usgs.gov" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt">olboyd@usgs.gov</span></a><br><br>------------------------------<wbr>-------------------<br><br><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Note: to add or remove your email from this list, please click the link below or send an email directly to the listserve and await further instructions. </span></div></div></div>