PART 1 

- Introduction to Site Characterization and Site Effects 

- Single-station Methods - Array-based Methods 

- Some Previous Applications 

PART 2 

- Introduction to Ground Motion Simulation Methods 

- Stochastic Methods 

- Deterministic Methods 

- Some Previous Applications

Data processing & visualization

• Reading and obtaining seismic waveforms from various sources
• Processing/Visualization of station metadata, earthquake catalog/seismicity
• Processing seismic data
• Phase identification with tauP, phase picking using STA/LTA method
• Processing synthetic waveforms and making misfit measurements

Applications in engineering seismology

• H/V method
• Spectral response of a building
• Deconvolution on seismic records from a building

Wavefield simulations using Specfem2D

• Forward modeling
• Calculating finite frequency sensitivity kernels
• Full waveform inversion

The course combines an overview of the general workflow for microseismic event processing and analysis and the physics behind earthquake induction.  Points covered over the two sessions include:

• Overview of Earthquakes and microseismicity, scaling, quick overview of the workflow for a microseismic processing project
• The mechanics of fracturing. Mechanisms driving the induction of microseismic events
• Seismic magnitude
• Induced seismicity cases: early examples of dam-induced seismicity, hydraulic fracturing-induced seismicity, overview of traffic-light systems.
• Hands-on examples. Participants will have access to 2-weeks licence for InSite-HF to work and visualise example case studies provided. A brief introduction to the use of the software with the pre-configured examples will be provided.
• Analysis, imaging, characterisation, and quantification of the induced fracture network, including a case study from the hydraulic fracturing of a tight-gas formation