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Seismic velocity anisotropies measured in underground mines are compared with in situ stress measurements in these mines. These underground data are also compared with seismic velocity anisotropies observed by large scale seismic sounding conducted from the earth’s surface. The velocity anisotropies are about 10% and the data obtained by different methods on different scales and frequencies agree with each other. The directions of largest and smallest velocities coincide with the largest and smallest horizontal stresses, respectively. These results suggest that the direction and magnitude of stresses in potential mining areas could be estimated from velocity anisotropies observed in seismic prospecting of the area.
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Turchaninov, I.A., Panin, V.I., Markov, G.A., Pavlovskii, V.I., Sharov, N.V., Ivanov, G.A. (1977). On Correlation Between Seismic Velocity Anisotropy and Stresses In Situ . In: Wyss, M. (eds) Stress in the Earth. Contributions to Current Research in Geophysics (CCRG). Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-5745-1_15
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