REPEAT SHOCKS IN SEISMIC OBSERVATIONS

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/04/25 : CIA-RDP82-00039R000100270012-9 'AT ,SFi9CKS i 'l IC OB 'ERVAT i01I A. 1'i, y,epinat~yeva (Gcoohys:ical Ins-bi-tu-be, !'.cad,erJ~ o: ;ciefces USR) Izveutiya. Akademil 1 auk S;>SR, ;er ya Geofiz:icheskaYa, No, , p ayes 13-6o. iJloscow: Ju1y-.August 1.9i. . STAT `STAT yh", , . .,~;. , +,, Declassified in Part - Sanitized Co Approved for Release 2012/04/25: CIA-RDP82-00039R000100270012-9 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/04/25 : CIA-RDP82-00039R000100270012-9 STAT '1'.~Arl SHQC~S fN~ SL:fSM,C~,Q13S ~ VAI IQNS -+ A. M. yepa t y'eVa ' 's a description of experimen'ta on he deterrni-~ Given hcxr a. tjrne of appearance of. repeat shocks nation of the functa:an of the. and their t , ,ch ;Y,e,pcrt to the rnagniude of the charge osions The graprls of the f'unctt,ari of and the death h of an ex~)1. cessI ve shoclts conform to the theoz'Y ?f time ~ T betweern two suc Of .. as globe in a 1iq.u d, taking into conSideration vibration boundaries of the section: the surface of the the acts on of she water and the bed of the water reservoir. The ratio (A2 A1) t, at tie amplitudes of the waves which correspond to the second ' shack (A2) and the efplosian (Al) is diminished as Q is increased., With small values of ~, ` ~ repeat shocks were observed Eaheh were. of . greater intensity than the he explasion. Theoretical research has . 1 been done on the problem of the intensity of repeat shocks. It shown that the cause of the observed ratios A2 Al has been may T be the difference in the .frequency spectrums of the explosion ~ and the pulsation, rrhe presence of repeat shocks in explasions in water- ted in a `who! e series of works [1, ..and reservoirs has been na others], A. G. 1vanov 1, adduces some data on the difference in C time T between the ex.Pp losion and the shock, and on the ratio ~J. of amplitude of the second shock to that of the first with different charges in the course of explosions in a river; in the work of A~ A. TsvetaYev and Na I. Shapirovs.kiY [ 2] riatice is taken of the fact resence of repeat shacks in explosions in the sea during of the.: p . ~ %_: P C7((/t11 r A / ` 7` ai/Yr ~ 1 l Cpl ...5?~ ~~1 ~'( J- ye ?/ l Gl, iCG9 ( / ( /1 t 7q) /) ' 0. . . ee C(piC: , r C ej- Soi? .. Fti4rs.++4FF Cl Yt k22 i'r e (L ) Declassified in Part- Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/04/25 : CIA-RDP82-00039R000100270012-9 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/04/25 : CIA-RDP82-00039R000100270012-9 seismic prospecting using the reflected.wave method. The results of the majority of works by foreign authors, in which data are adduced on repeat shocks in explosions in water-reservoirs, are set forth in Koul's summarizing work [L ] In certain experimental projects notice has been taken of repeat shocks in explosions in driilMholes filled with water ? But this phenomenon is encountered with Considerably less frequency in seismic research, and we shall not go into it in this work, The cause of repeat shocks is the vjbrati.ons of the gas bubble which is formed in explosions in water [3-5], Photographs which illustrate the pulsation of the gas bubble are given in work i 5i +' Theoretical consideration of the problem of v1brat:L oils of a gas globe in water is given for the special' case w1ic~re the center of the bubble is motionless and the bubble is located in an un- bounded :liquid, and for the more general case where the inf' ~ l pence of the boundaries of the section (the surface of the water and the floor or bed) and the migration of the bubble due to the aCt:t.0i1 of gravitational force are taken into consideration [L], In seismic investigations by the reflectecijr . ti r!.ei.hod and the correlation method. of rdfractec~ waves ~, where a SuCCE?SSive por- tion of the seismogram is used, the phenomenon of repeat shocks in explosions in water is a matter of great danger. Due t .. o the prey serlce of repeat shocks the wave picture may in some case. be so strongly distorted that utilization of the successi.v e portion of the seismograrrt, beginning with the time when the second shock. is Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/04/25 : CIA RDP82 00039R000100270012-9 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/04/25 : CIA-RDP82-00039R000100270012-9 registered, becomes impo ssi.ble . Ii' the presence of repeat' shocks cannot be e:abiished by records, work with the successive portion of the seismograrr- may ~herr lead to erroneous conclusions relative to the number of seismic boundaries of the section, their shape, and the angle o?' 'inclination. The well-known methoci of dealing with repeat shocks by decreasing tho depth of the explosion or increasing the charge {L,5] i:s far from being always applicable All this makes it essential to conduct special study of the phenomenon of repeat shocks in seismic investiE:ations. Study of this phenomenon should, in particular, make it possible to dew terrmine the conditions under which repeat shocks do riot occur or are oi' such small intensity that their presence cannot cause any serious 'distortion of the .yeco rd? In the seismic` experiments of the Geophysical Institute` in l9Z~?-l9La.9 we performed experiments to determine the dependence of the character of repeat shocks (amplitude, period, etc.) on the magnitude of the charge, the depth of the explosion, etc. We determined a number of dynamic peculiarities of the record of repeat shocks which had riot been noted before. Below is given a description of the results obtained., with an attempt to interpret therm. THE i'U SULI'S OF TEtE EXPERI1 ENTS' Conditions of the experiments. The explosions were produced in water-reservoirs on the bottom or at some depth in a layer of water.. In most cases the reservoirs were closed (quarries, ponds, etc.); the depth of the Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Aproved for Release 2012/04/25 : CIA-RDP82-00039R000100270012-9 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/04/25 : CIA-RDP82-00039R000100270012-9 reservoirs wits from 1.5 to 1 'meters, and they measured from 20 to 200 rneteracross. The explcsiorls ~rere usually produced i.n the approximate middle of the reservoir. To set up vibrations charges from i eiectro-detonator to 100 kilograms of' dynamit1e were usedm Registration. of the vibrations was accomplished principally by means of a multiple-channel aeisrnic station. The maxi.mun of the frequency characteristic of the amplifiers was at a frequency of 60 cycles, and the T,a.d th oil the ?'requencyMpass band, u1ng a level of 0,7 of the maximum value, was equal to 100 cycles. A small scope of observations was achieved. by means of apparatus tuned. to resister frec:uencies of the order of 80 cycles. with In the observations vc,rticai electrodynarnic seismographs per:.i.ou of natursi.l oscillations c)? about O.OEG seconds were used, The distance from the seismographs to the point of ex- plosion varied from 10 to 1000 metersm Repeat shocks were re- cor(ied. for explosions in different reservoirs in the layer of water and on the bottom a.f' the reservoirs. Number of repeat shocks. The maximum number of repeat shocks noted on the seismogram was four (Figure l). In a large number of instances two shocks were noted on the records Magnitude of the charges and depth of t e explosion Repeat shocks were observed with charges Q from 1 e:iectro- detonator up to the maximum usable charge, equal to 100 kilograms r1'he depths h of the explosion varied from 1 to l~ meters. In Figures 1, 2(a,b), and 3 are given the seismograms obtained with Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/04/25 : CIA-RDP82-00039R000100270012-9 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/04/25 : CIA-RDP82-00039R000100270012-9 various charges; the repeat shocks are registered on them. For a fixed depth h and an increase in the charge Q, the interval of time L. T between two successive shocks (Figure 2, a, b) increases, and beginning with some limiting value of the charge li:m the repeat shocks disappear (Figure 2, 'i'he value q, lim i ncre~1ses with increased depth, and i..s different for different reservoirs. For example, for one of the reservoirs, about 3 meters in depth with an explosion depth (f'rorn the surface of the water) of h = 1.3 meters, r~lirrl was equal to 300 grains, and with h 2e5 meter, s Q?1im was equal to 5 kilograsrls? For another reservoir, 15 feet deep, at h ? 1 meter Q1i.m was equal to 600 'rams, and a.t depth h : 2, 5 meters and with equal to 5 kilo 1a_nl grams a second shock was still observed. rI'hi.s difference in the ~ values of 1~ m is associated, in all probability, with the different depths and cross .-measurernent: of the reservoirs, i.?e~ with the different action of the boundaries of the section on the vibrations of the gas bubble The observed values of Q1i111 at which the second shock disappears, are close to values determined frorrl the following equation.: (h + 10 38 where Q is expressed in kilograms, and h in meters, Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Aproved for Release 2012/04/25 : CIA-RDP82-00039R000100270012-9 (1) Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/04/25 : CIA-RDP82-00039R000100270012-9 l;0 gr~i.rrls J5 meters Figure 1. Seismogram on which 1i. repeat shocks are indicated. .w.rwrxw??rHnn+~+w+rHw..wrHrM?MHrY~rwxixnnH~wrw+www~xw?wnrxwrw+w.+..wrr~YwurrNWMwM'w`uruwwlMNxwYWrwwrrrrnr.wYxrMYHMN~rWINrrMrnY'n'nuMWwM?YM+r+nM4vwrwrNMMyMWMMMNr~wMMwMMYYY4WMMMMMwwuwrn M+?w+.LLrnx+e+wuMM1,YwAHw?MWMTM+wrrll~nneHM,n rfwww?MMW QMlel. det. a. b. ~l5 13 `meters grams h = l.3 meters Q = 300 grams C. h - 1.3 meters Figure 2. Seismograms obtained with d fferent explosions. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Cop Approved for Release 2012/04/25 : CIA-RDP82-00039R000100270012-9 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/04/25 : CIA-RDP82-00039R000100270012-9 Q : () kilograms h if:; rtteters Figure 3. SE..l.s,7io s.rr~rtl obta`.i.ned w1 tb. Q .. 0 kilo ;rarms and h i meters. c: _. M ..,.~.M .~_,.__r ~, .~w..r......, .....~..,, ..... ~~v,,.,r.r..rrx~wrww,vw~wx+'.rn.n...w.?rr+.r+.rwr..+r+'~Wlwl~w.r.MHi~.~vwv.+'~vwMri+.x.r+~.i+M.Ywvwr,+rlrNr.MlrW w..arMIM1,M~Iwww+w~M.FMI.r~Mlxw.vvx.FM.IRM,M 30 kilograms h l5 meters and photograph of water upheaval corresponding to it. Figure Li.. Seismogram Equation (1) is obtained f'rorn the formu.l~' which related the maximum radius Am of the bubble during the quantities Q and h L~. fi.r. st pt sation with the 1/3 (2) 3.37 '_q__._:\ h+lO Assumini; in formula (2) that Am = h, which corresponds .to the boundax case when clurin.g the first pulsation the radius of the bubble Y b~, Ito tr>e de1:rth of the explosion and the bubble bursts, , acome,.~s equal. we obtain equation (1). In Table 1 are given values of Q calculated according to for- mula (1)? Declassified in Part - Sanitized Co Approved for Release 2012/04/25 : CIA-RDP82-00039R000100270012-9 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/04/25 : CIA-RDP82-00039R000100270012-9 Table 1 m 1 :2 3 S 8 10 15' 20 30 Qy ka.lo. grams 003 2, 5 9G2 Li.9 2L~.0 525 2200 6300 271j.00 Repeat shocks and upheaval of water, In some articles and reports the opinion has been expressed that when there is an upheaval of water with an escape of the gas repeat shocks should not be observed, in the work of Koul [] a description is furn.isbed of cases where repeat' shocks were ob.. served. when there was an enormous upheaval of water, and an ex.~ planation of this phenomenon is given whose essence is as follows4 A bubble which has forrried during an explosion at a certain depth is raised upward due to the action of gravitational forces, and in 1 e- c+ es s so doing accomplishes pulsating vibrations, With a sufficient c depth of explosion the bubble succeeds in accomplishing one or mare vibratory movements between reaching the surface and bursting, To these vibratory movements correspond the repeat shocks on seismo~ grams, and the upheaval of water corresponds to the bursting of the bursting bubble, In our experiments repeat shocks were also observed when there was an upheaval of water, which, conforms to the results of work [Lt]. In some cases the upheaval, was in the form of a large . vertical column of water and was accompla.shed b the escape of Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/04/25 : CIA-RDP82-00039R000100270012-9 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/04/25 : CIA-RDP82-00039R000100270012-9 gases; in: other case a ,mail upheaval of water was observed i.h the Form of a column of spray rising with a rather large area. The cause of the upheaval in the first case was probably the rupturing of the gas bubble, which occurred at the moment when the pulsating bubble reached the surface of the water.. The cause of the upheaval i.n the second case may have been the action on the surface of the water of t,iie shock wave which was .formed durin; the explosion and propagated in the waters In Figure 1~. is given a seismogram on which are noted repeat shocks and a photograph of the surface effect in the zone of the explosiono which corresponds to this record, The 'interval_ of time between two' successive 'shocl?:sa we shall denote by T. the interval of time between i,i+l and'(i+i) shocks, holding it t;o be the case that the first shock is caused by the explosion, and that successive shocks are caused by the vibrations of the gas bubble, The results of certain in- vestigations performed for the purpose of determining the de- pendency of j on the magnitude of the charge Q and the a., i ~?1 depth of the explosion h are given in Figure , a and b, In Figure ~a are represented graphs of .L\T12 = f (Q.) for h,.5, and 8 meters, which have been drawn according; to the data of obser- yata ons of explosions in a body of water l meters deep, Figure b are represented graphs of L T12 = f (Q) and 1 T L.3 f2(Q) when h = 5 meters, which have been drawn according to the data of observation of explosion in another body of water about 18 meters deeps Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Aroved for Release 2012/04/25 : CIA-RDP82-00039R000100270012-9 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/04/25 : CIA-RDP82-00039R000100270012-9 Consideration of the graphs indicates that the va;Lue f, increases with an increase in Q and a decrease in h, to quantity (T)/O Q decr?:aSing with an increase in Q. The time w4w?`N:rMHYYM1YwNYNYwN1HMFM wMNNMNMw~MMwIM1nMW:MiMwJY114MRMIMMMMnw~w'YMMMMMIMMMY'IYM+MY~ X12, seconds .,..w ,,_._____._ __.___,~..M ~ .... w...~..,. I { a Q, kilograms ~, seco~ilds' Q, kilograr.S Figurea Graphs of the dependence of L\T12 on Q, a gives the ob- served curves (solid lines) and the theoretical curves (dotted lines) according to formula (3); b gives the same curves according to for- mina, (L) The individual dots on both graphs correspond to the ob- served data. w.nmYw+w,.~w~~'.ww.~Ywiwanwn~wei+~+rnw,wYewYex~rorm~"+'~+'h+enm.'~urw~mn~nn~nRr"n*+ ~: ; ; meters, Fi=18meterss 11 Declassified in Part- Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/04/25 : CIA-RDP82-00039R000100270012-9 . ! ? 5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/04/25 : CIA-RDP82-00039R000100270012-9 In. the case of an unbounded medium the dependence of the value ?;T12 on 1 kilogram) the successive shocks are usually weaker than the first shock, The amplitude of the successive shocks caused by the pulsation of the gas bubble decreases with an increase in the number of the shock, It has been shown that the observed dynamic peculiarities of the records of the repeat shocks the relationship of the amplitudes; the predominating frequencies, etc, .- may be ex~ plained from the qualitative standpoint by the difference in frequency spectra of the explosion and the pulsation4 In the frequency spectrum Sl of an impulse of exponential shape, cor responding approximately to the explosion, there is little change in the amplitudes of the harmonic .components .when the frequency changes from 0 to 400 cycles with a' comparatively small duration of the impulse. In the frequency spectrum Si of an impulse of bell. shape, corresponding approximately to the pulsation, the maximum amplitudes are possessed by the low frequency components; the decrease in amplitudes with frequency is the more abrupt as the duration of the impulse caused by the pulsation becomes 36.x; Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/04/25 : CIA-RDP82-00039R000100270012-9 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/04/25 : CIA-RDP82-00039R000100270012-9 greater. In spite of the fact that th4 maximum pressure developed during the pulsation is considerably less than the pressure deg -v-eloped during the explosion, the ratio of the amplitudes of the waves corresponding to the pulsation and the explosion may be larger then unity due to the fact that the apparatus used regis- ters the rather low frequencies created 'principally during the -pulsation. In further experiments on repeat shocks it appears expedient to perform a frejuency analysis of the records of the repeat shocks and the explosion. Aside from this, light must be shed on problems of the directional characteristics of explosions and pulsations, on the relationshir, between repeat shocks and the characte?~ of the bottom of 'the water-body, etc, The carrying out of further experiments on repeat shocks will make it possible to determine in more detail the physical nature of the phenomenon and will facilitate the quest for now means of attenuating the intensity of repeat shocks or of com- plete avoidance of theme Academy of Sciences USSR Delivered to Press Geophysical Institute March 28, 1981 BIBLIOGRAPHY Ivanov, A.G0 , t'A. Seismoelectric Effect of the Second Typ Izv. AN SSSR, Geographical and Geophysical Series, No 5, pp 699 727, 1940 unitized Copy Approved for Release 2012J04/25 :CIA-RDP82-000398000100270012-9 . Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/04/25 : CIA-RDP82-00039R000100270012-9 2. Tsvetayev, A.A. and S.hapirovsk y, N I., "Marine Seismic Prospecting Projects on the Southern Bank of the Apsheronski.y Peninsula't, Symp, of Applied Geophysics, No 1, pp 77 - 81, 1945, 3, Axons, A.13., Slifko, J..P, and Carter, A., "Secondary Pressure Pulses due to Gas Globe Oscillation i,n Underwater Explosions' JASA, V, 20, pp 271 w 282, 1945; Koul, , 'rUnderwater Explosions", IIL, Moscow, 1950. 5? Ewjng, M, , VVoo1ard, G.P, Vine, A, C, , Vorzel, J. L, , "Recent Results in Submarine Geophysics't, Bull, Geol., Soc. AAner, , V57, pp 910 w 934, 1946, 6A Itskhoki, Ya.S., Impulse Techniques, Moscow, 1949, 70 Reley, The Theory of Sound, t. II, iVioscoW-Leningrad, pp 25 - 27, 115 116, 1944, ,n* 38 ~. 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