SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DETECTION OF SEISMIC EVENTS FROM A NETWORK

• US 20080137475A1
• Filed: 11/06/2007
• Published: 06/12/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Magnitude Spas
• Original Assignee: Magnitude Spas
• Inventors: Maisons, Christophe
• Granted Patent: US 8,422,334 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 367/25
• CPC Class Codes: G01V 1/01 Measuring or predicting earthquakes

Abstract

Disclosed is a system for detecting seismic events, the system including a plurality of seismic receivers, at least one of the receivers in the plurality adapted for: monitoring seismic activity, providing an alert to at least another of the receivers in the plurality upon detection of a seismic event, and triggering the monitoring in the at least another of the receivers in the plurality. A method and computer program product for monitoring seismic events is also disclosed.

Claims

1. A system for detecting seismic events, the system comprising:

a plurality of seismic receivers, at least one of the receivers in the plurality adapted for;

monitoring seismic activity, providing an alert to at least another of the receivers in the plurality upon detection of a seismic event, and triggering the monitoring in the at least another of the receivers in the plurality.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the monitoring in the at least another of the seismic receivers is selected from:

constant monitoring and periodic monitoring.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising a buffer in communication with the at least another of the seismic receivers for temporarily storing data during a selected time period.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the input information is an indication of a seismic event.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising a memory device for storing seismic data, in communication with the at least another of the seismic receivers.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of seismic receivers comprise a location selected from at least one of:

a surface and within a well.

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising a network coupling at least two of the plurality of seismic receivers to a collector, wherein the coupling comprises at least one of:

a wireless connection, a wire connection, and a fiber optic connection.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of seismic receivers comprises at least one shallow well receiver and at least one deep well receiver.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one of the seismic receivers is a deep well receiver, and the at least another of the seismic receivers is a shallow well receiver.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of seismic receivers comprises a number of deep well receivers, and a number of shallow well receivers greater than the number of deep well receivers.

11. A method for detecting seismic events, the method comprising:

monitoring seismic events with at least one of a plurality of seismic receivers;

upon detection of a seismic event, providing an alert to at least another of the receivers in the plurality; and

triggering the monitoring in the at least another of the receivers in the plurality.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein monitoring includes receiving seismic waves and generating seismic data.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein detection of an event comprises detection of seismic event data comprising a value exceeding a threshold value.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein providing an alert comprises providing the alert to a collection machine, and providing the alert from the collection machine to the at least another of the receivers.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising storing data in the collection machine, the data generated by the at least another of the receivers by the monitoring.

16. The method of claim 11, further comprising receiving seismic waves and generating seismic data in the at least another of the receivers, and temporarily storing the seismic data in a temporary buffer device during a selected time period.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein storing comprises storing the seismic data in a first-in/first-out (FIFO) manner.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein triggering the monitoring comprises transferring the temporarily stored data to a memory device, and storing additional seismic data generated after the triggering.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising storing the temporarily stored seismic data and the additional seismic data from the at least another of the receivers in a collection machine.

20. A computer program product comprising machine readable instructions stored on machine readable media, the instructions for detecting seismic events by implementing a method comprising:

monitoring seismic events with at least one of a plurality of seismic receivers;

upon detection of an event, providing an alert to at least another of the receivers in the plurality; and

triggering the monitoring in the at least another of the receivers in the plurality.