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We propose a new method for inverting source function of microseismic event induced in mining. The observed data from microseismic monitoring during mining are represented by a wave equation in a spherical coordinate system and then the data are transformed from the time-space domain to the time-slowness domain based on tomographic principle, from whichwe can obtain the signals related to the source in the time-slowness domain. Through analyzing the relationship between the signal located at the maximum energy and the source function, we derive the tomographic equations to compute the source function from the signals and to calculate the effective radiated energy based on the source function. Moreover, we fit the real amplitude spectrum of the source function computed from the observed data into the ω −2 model based on the least squares principle and determine the zero-frequency level spectrum and the corner frequency, finally, the source rupture radius of the event is calculated and The synthetic and field examples demonstrate that the proposed tomographic inversion methods are reliable and efficient
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The research is supported jointly by projects of the National Natural Science Fund Project (No.51174016) and the National Key Basic Research and Development Plan 973 (No.2010CB226803).
Miao Hua-Xiang: See biography and photo in the Applied Geophysics June 2012 issue, P. 176
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Miao, HX., Jiang, FX., Song, XJ. et al. Tomographic inversion for microseismic source parameters in mining. Appl. Geophys. 9, 341–348 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11770-012-0347-z
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