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Figure 10.28 Six possible ways that<br />

mine-induced seismic events can occur:<br />

(A) cavity collapse; (B) pillar<br />

burst; (C) tensional fault; (D) normal<br />

fault; (E) thrust fault; <strong>and</strong> (F) shallow<br />

thrust faulting (after Hasegawa et al.,<br />

1989).<br />

ENERGY, MINE STABILITY, MINE SEISMICITY AND ROCKBURSTS<br />

released by excavation. This suggests that, for the case of seismic events associated<br />

with fault slip, most of the released energy is dissipated by rock comminution during<br />

generation of faults <strong>and</strong> fractures <strong>and</strong> subsequent episodes of shear motion along<br />

them.<br />

The ratio of P-wave energy to S-wave energy is an important indicator of the source<br />

mechanism of a seismic event. For natural earthquakes, Boatwright <strong>and</strong> Fletcher<br />

(1984) showed that the S-wave energy is usually 10 to 30 times the P-wave energy<br />

for a double couple event. Mine scale seismicity shows different Es/Ep ratios. For a<br />

mine in the Ruhr Basin, Germany, Gibowicz et al. (1990) found the ratio of S-wave<br />

energy to P-wave energy ranged from 1.5 to 30, with two-thirds of the events having<br />

Es/Ep energy ratios less than 10. Urbancic <strong>and</strong> Young (1993) obtained similar<br />

results in a study at the Strathcona mine, Ontario, Canada. The proposal is that the<br />

enhanced P-wave energy <strong>and</strong> reduced S-wave energy can be explained by a nondouble<br />

couple source mechanism. Gibowicz <strong>and</strong> Kijko (1994) proposed that these<br />

results, involving a volumetric component of deformation, are consistent with tensile<br />

failures, or at least shear failures with tensile components, that often occur in<br />

mines.<br />

10.10.4 Magnitude<br />

A magnitude scale is an attempt to measure the size of a seismic event, ideally in<br />

real time, <strong>and</strong> for some scales, in terms of the amplitude of part of the body wave<br />

that it induces. In most cases, the various proposed magnitude scales have been based<br />

on amplitudes recorded over a particular spectral b<strong>and</strong>. The three commonly used<br />

magnitude scales are described below.<br />

The most commonly cited measure of magnitude is Local Magnitude (Richter,<br />

1935). It is based on time domain parameters <strong>and</strong> therefore requires no spectral<br />

analysis to estimate the magnitude. It is defined by<br />

308<br />

ML = log[A(D)Kw/K )] − logA0(D) (10.100)

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