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Statistical properties of seismic noise measured in underground spaces during seismic swarm

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The results of seismic noise analysis during West Bohemia seismic swarm (September 2011) are presented. The continuous measurements of seismic noise were performed at the seismic station located in underground space. The main purpose of the investigation is the estimating of parameters of seismic noise at the time fragments including the swarm and after its finishing. Eight characteristics of the noise were used which include mutlifractal parameters and wavelet-based entropy. Noise characteristics were calculated within adjacent time windows of the length 1 min with further averaging of 1 min estimates within adjacent 1 h fragments. The main peculiarity of the resulting time series of mean values of seismic noise parameters with time step 1 h is their daily periodicity. Besides that some statistics extract periodicity of 1 week. A wavelet-based multiple correlation measure estimated within weekly moving time window was applied to variations of 8 mean daily seismic noise parameters. The seismic swarm manifests in non-stationary behaviour of the noise parameters which includes breaking the daily periodic structure and existing of irregular spikes. In spite of existing spikes and irregular components the swarm is characterized by relatively high values of multiple correlations.

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This research was performed with the financial support of the Czech Science Foundation, No. 105/09/0089 “A prognosis of time-space changes in the stability of mine cavities of industrial heritage site, Jeroným Mine at Čistá” and within the frame of cooperation between Russian and Czech researchers (joint theme “Investigation of microseismic field in Ostrava–Karviná region and other areas”). Map of epicentres was prepared using the database of WEBNET network, which is operated in frame of project CzechGeo/EPOS, LM2010008. This work was also supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 12-05-00146).

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  1. Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, B. Gruzinskaya, 10, 123995 , Moscow, Russia

    A. A. Lyubushin

  2. Institute of Geonics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Studentska street 1768, Poruba, 70800 , Ostrava, Czech Republic

    Z. Kaláb & M. Lednická

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Lyubushin, A.A., Kaláb, Z. & Lednická, M. Statistical properties of seismic noise measured in underground spaces during seismic swarm. Acta Geod Geophys 49, 209–224 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40328-014-0051-y

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