Quantitative discrimination of seismic attributes of small faults in southern typical coalfield

Abstract

Faults are an important factor inducing mine safety accidents, and it poses difficulties on the identification of faults within 5 m of drop.Taking the Liupanshui coalfield of Guizhou province as the study area, this paper investigated the coalfield strata and carried out an on-site survey.It proposed a seismic physical model and used the unique velocity ratio of 1∶1.74 to realize the construction and analysis of small faults with a burial depth of 800 m, 1 000 m and 1 200 m and a drop of 5 m, 3 m and 1 m.This paper extracted a variety of seismic properties by seismic dynamics method to analyze small faults, and obtained the sensitivity of seven seismic properties to the characteristic response of small faults, including amplitude envelope, amplitude first derivative, and amplitude second derivative, and the correlation between seismic properties and drop was established accordingly.The results show that when the small fault drop of the coal seam is less than or equal to 5 m, there is a linear relationship with the traditional amplitude attributes, and a linear relationship with the seismic properties related to phase and frequency.There is high correlation between the amplitude envelope and the amplitude imaginary part, and low correlation between the instantaneous frequency, the amplitude first derivative, the cosine instantaneous phase, the amplitude second derivative and the amplitude envelope.

Keywords

• physical model
• small fault
• buried depth
• throw
• seismic attribute
• mathematical relationship