Article:Yousef, BM and Angus, DA orcid.org/0000-0003-0734-7835 (2017) Analysis of fracture induced scattering of microseismic shear-waves. Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica, 61 (4). pp. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11200-016-0384-9 © 2017 Inst. Geophys. CAS, Prague. This is an author produced version of an article published in Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica. The final publication is available at Springer via https://doi.org/10.1007/s11200-016-0384-9. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy.eprints@whiterose.ac.uk https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/ Reuse Items deposited in White Rose Research Online are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved unless indicated otherwise. They may be downloaded and/or printed for private study, or other acts as permitted by national copyright laws. The publisher or other rights holders may allow further reproduction and re-use of the full text version. This is indicated by the licence information on the White Rose Research Online record for the item.
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AbstractFractures are pervasive features within the Earth's crust and have a significant influence on the multi-physical response of the subsurface. The presence of coherent fracture sets often leads to observable seismic scattering enabling seismic techniques to remotely locate and characterise fracture systems. In this study, we confirm the general scale-dependence of seismic scattering and provide new results specific to shear-wave propagation. We do this by generating full waveform synthetics using finite-difference wave simulation within an isotropic background model containing explicit fractures. By considering a suite of fracture models having variable fracture density and fracture size, we examine the widening effect of wavelets due to scattering within a fractured medium by using several different approaches, such as root-mean-square envelope analysis, shearwave polarisation distortion, differential attenuation analysis and peak frequency shifting. The analysis allows us to assess the scattering behaviour of parametrised models in which the propagation direction is either normal or parallel to the fracture surfaces. The quantitative measures show strong observable deviations for fractures size on the order of or greater than the dominant seismic wavelength within the Mie and geometric scattering regime for both propagation normal and parallel to fracture strike. The results suggest that strong scattering is symptomatic of fractures having size on the same order of the probing seismic wave.