Shallow seafloor seismic wave monitoring using 3-component fiber optic interferometric accelerometer

Abstract

A fiber optic interferometric seismic monitoring system developed by us was deployed on the shallow seafloor near the Wuchang oceanic monitoring station off the Hainan Island, in the South China Sea, in 2017. In the past three plus years, it has recorded more than 40 teleseismic activities of magnitude 6.0+. We analyze these shallow seafloor observed seismic signals monitored by the fiber optic interferometric three-component accelerometer from the perspective of analyzing the underwater ambient seismic noise and the attenuation of the noise in the shallow seafloor seismic signals. The ambient seismic noise produced by wind, wave, shipping, and on-shore manmade activities admixed in the seismic signal is analyzed and discussed in detail. And the attenuation of such noise in the shallow seafloor seismic data using a hybrid denoising algorithm is demonstrated by applying it to three representative seismic events having different distances and magnitudes, with results showing that the noise in the shallow seafloor seismic signal is effectively reduced, and the ratio of the maximum acceleration value of seismic wave to the noise level is improved by more than 32 dB, rendering the seismic waves clearly observable.

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