Ground Truth Collection for Mining Explosions in Northern Fennoscandia and Northwestern Russia

• Main Authors: Harris, D B, Ringdal, R, Kremenetskaya, E, Mykkeltveit, S, Rock, D W, Maercklin, N, Schweitzer, J, Hauk, T F, Lewis, J P
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: 01 COAL; LIGNITE; AND PEAT; 58 GEOSCIENCES; EXPLOSIONS; FRACTURES; GROUND TRUTH MEASUREMENTS; MINING; POTENTIAL ENERGY; SHEAR; SURFACE EXPLOSIONS; SURFACE MINING; UNDERGROUND EXPLOSIONS; WAVE FORMS; Kiruna; Khibiny; Kovdor; Olenegorsk; Fennoscandia; Malmberget; Northern Sweden
• Online Access: http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/878633; https://www.osti.gov/biblio/878633

We concluded comprehensive ground truth collection at the Khibiny, Olenegorsk, Kovdor, and Zapolyarnyi mines, and have basic information on 2,052 explosions. In the past two years we used this ground truth information to extract waveform data from the ARCES array and a number of regional stations (K...