Communications Earth & Environment (Nov 2022)

Advanced monitoring of tailings dam performance using seismic noise and stress models

  • Susanne M. Ouellet,
  • Jan Dettmer,
  • Gerrit Olivier,
  • Tjaart DeWit,
  • Matthew Lato

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00629-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Ambient seismic noise interferometry combined with a quantitative stress model can be used to determine changes in seismic wave velocity and, by extension, other geotechnical parameters which are critical to monitoring tailings dam performance