Characterisation of Forearc Basin on

Sumatra Aseismic zone by Tomography

CGGV040
Team work:
Adam Putra
Gabriel Huot
Mark Noble
Satish Singh

Area of Interest
Sing et al. 2011 (nature Geoscience)

CGGV040
Aseismic zone
Subducted Seamount
there has been no great
earthquakes for the last 200
years [Sieh et al., 2008]

Previous and current study

Haiyang Wang worked with FWI
on CGGV010 (locked zone)
revealing LVZ
Huot and Singh also found the
LVZ beneath the CGGV020 line
(across ruptured zone)
I and Gabriel will work on
CGGV040
is there LVZ on CGGV040 ???

What we will do?

Ray-Based Traveltime Tomography
!
!

To image 2D velocity profile

Full Waveform Inversion ???

Related Study
!

Singh et. al. 2012 : imaged velocity model of line WG2 from OBS data.

Fifty-six OBS were deployed at an interval of 8.1 km along the

profile

To observe discontinuous reflections off the top of the subducting

oceanic crust down to 60 km depth in the 2004 great SumatraAndaman earthquake rupture zone

Ghosal et al. 2014 : high-resolution traveltime tomography of refracted

phases to determine a detailed velocitydepth model of subsurface on
WG2

The TTT was performed by inverting the first arrivals (refracted) of

every fourth downward continued shot gathers to determine a velocity
depth model using the algorithm developed by Van Avendonk et al.
(2004).
Semi automatic picking traveltime
Starting model adapted from the OBS tomography result (Chauhan
2010)

Singh et. al. 2012

Result

Starting model (OBS

tomography result
(Chauhan 2010))

Best-fitting model after

18th iteration (Ghosal et
al., 2014 )

Sing et al. 2011 (nature Geoscience)

CGGV040

Studied Line

About 110 km through forearc

High and Forearc Basin
Above the Backthrust and
push up ridge
Sing et al. 2011

Schematic diagram of the subducted seamount

Studied Line

About 110 km through forearc

High and Forearc Basin
Above the Backthrust and
push up ridge

Sing et al. 2011 (nature Geoscience)

What we have done so far

Pre-Data Processing
Convert SEGY to SU
Select a preferred data
Apply multiplying, filtering and tapering
!

tapering edge trace to zero

type: sine
filtering: Butterworth bandpass filter
Low cut stop band: 4
Low cut pass band:13
High cut stop band: 5 High cut pass band:15

Time Migrated Data

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Time Migrated Data

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Depth Migrated Data

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Single Trace (Zero offset)

Bathymetric Map

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Shot point 4045 bath=1992 m

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Shot point 6377 bath=211 m

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1-D RMS Velocity Profile

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line 1

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line 2

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line 3

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Next:Tomography
Picking first arrival Travel time
Produce a starting interval velocity model
in depth
Tracing rays through the starting velocity
model
Subtract predicted travel times from
picked travel times
Run tomography inversion until the
residual is small

Pobs Pcalc

Ray-Based Traveltime Tomography

True
Velocity

Observed Wavefield

Initial
Velocity

obs

Calculated Wavefield

P calc

Wavefield Residual

obs

calc

Velocity Update

Iterate until wavefield

residual is small

Question
Is it necessary to do Downward
continuation first?
shallowest bathymetry = 200 m
Deepest Bathymetry
= 1.9 km

Sing et al. 2011 (Nature Geoscience)

Thank You

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