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P-S waves 3D velocity model of Los Humeros area from earthquake based travel-time tomography using CAT3D software (OGS)

Authors/Creators

  • 1. OGS - Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale

Description

The dataset contains the 3D velocity model (VP (m/s), VS (m/s) and VP/VS) obtained from the tomographic inversion of seismological data in the area of Los Humeros (Mexico). The model was performed in the frame of the GEMex project (Mexico‐Europe Cooperation for research of enhanced geothermal systems and super-hot geothermal systems, WP5 ‘Detection of deep structures’, Jousset et al., D5.3, 2019).

The inversion used 2661 P arrivals and 2272 S arrivals associated to 395 earthquakes recorded by 37 stations. The picking data was provided by Toledo et al., 2019.

The inversion was performed by CAT3D software, a tomographic tool developed by OGS, which uses the SIRT method (Simultaneous Iterative Reconstruction Technique, Stewart, 1993) as inversion algorithm and the ray tracing procedure based on minimum time principle (Böhm et al., 1999). The velocities used as initial model for tomography were provided by the interpolated values obtained from the velocity analysis of four 2D seismic lines acquired inside the same investigated area by the tomographic inversion (See GEMex deliverable D5.3).

The 3D velocity model is defined by a 3D grid of 61 nodes in X, 69 nodes in Y and 29 nodes in Z, equally spaced by 250 m in all directions. The total dimensions of the model is 15x17x7 km and the borders positions are (m) (WGS 84/UTM ZONE 14N):

Xmin = 655000, Xmax = 670000

Ymin = 2168000, Ymax = 2185000

Zmin = -3000, Zmax = 4000

Notes

We acknowledge CFE for permission to use information derived from active seismic data of Los Humeros. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 727550.

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Funding

European Commission
GEMex - GEMex: Cooperation in Geothermal energy research Europe-Mexico for development of Enhanced Geothermal Systems and Superhot Geothermal Systems 727550

References

  • Böhm, G., Rossi, G., and Vesnaver, A., (1999), Minimum time ray tracing for 3D irregular grids, Journal of Seismic Exploration, v. 8, p. 117-131.
  • ousset, P., Agustsson K., Barison E., Böhm G., Caló M., Chavarria I. G., Farina B., Gaucher E., Loer K., Martins J., Perton M, Poletto F., Saenger E., Soto A. F., Toledo T., Verdel A., Werner C., (2019), Seismic structures of the Acoculco and Los Humeros geothermal fields, GEMex project, D5.3.
  • Stewart, R., (1993), Exploration Seismic Tomography: Fundamentals, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Course note series.
  • Toledo, T., E. Gaucher, M. Metz, M. Calò, A. Figueroa, J. Angulo, P. Jousset, K. Kieling, and E. Saenger (2019), Dataset of the 6G seismic network at Los Humeros, 2017-2018., GFZ Data Services. Other/Seismic Network., doi:10.14470/1T7562235078.