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Annual Report 2000 - WIT

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DISCUSSION<br />

The main limitations of the extension of the SBRC to the case of heterogeneous media<br />

proposed here are apparently related to the validity range of equation (16). Roughly<br />

they can be formulated from the following consideration of the right hand part of equation<br />

(1) in a 1-D medium:<br />

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(28)<br />

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Our approach is expected to be valid if the following inequality is satisfied:<br />

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óNZ Ì (29)<br />

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This can be roughly reduced to the following: ó[V\<br />

ó… ó…»](èó^Z <br />

number. Taking into account that ó,(!ó Ò ‘3é (»<br />

approximately<br />

we arrive at the following,<br />

rather simplified condition:<br />

Ì , where ( is the wave<br />

Ê Ò<br />

ó<br />

Ö<br />

ûÁé­È (30)<br />

This inequality relates the gradient of the hydraulic diffusivity and the frequency of<br />

the pressure perturbation. It is rather typical for the geometric optic approximation. It<br />

shows, that if the frequency is high enough and the medium heterogeneity is smooth<br />

the above approximation can be applied. In the case of the step-function like pressure<br />

perturbation the frequency corresponding to the triggering front is accepted to be éÁ‘<br />

. Using the equation of the triggering front in homogeneous poroelastic media (5)<br />

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the occurrence time of earlier events can be roughly approximated ˆ`_Ê Ò Bš § £!»ËŸ as .<br />

Note, Ê that denotes the distance from the injection source. Thus, inequality (30) can<br />

be reduced to the following one<br />

ó<br />

Ö<br />

È (31)<br />

This condition is a rather restrictive one. In addition, it shows that the smaller<br />

distance Ê the higher is the resolution of the method.<br />

In spite of the restrictive character of the inequalities above, we think that the<br />

geometric optic approximation is applicable to the propagation of microseismicity<br />

triggering fronts under rather common conditions. This is based on the causal nature<br />

of the triggering front definition. When considering the triggering front we are<br />

interested in a quickest possible configuration of the phase travel time surface for a<br />

given frequency. Thus, we are interested in kinematic aspects of the front propagation

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