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Published February 16, 2019 | Supplemental Material + Published
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The potential of distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) in teleseismic studies: insights from the Goldstone experiment

Abstract

Distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) is a recently developed technique that has demonstrated its utility in the oil and gas industry. Here we demonstrate the potential of DAS in teleseismic studies using the Goldstone OpticaL Fiber Seismic experiment in Goldstone, California. By analyzing teleseismic waveforms from the 10 January 2018 M7.5 Honduras earthquake recorded on ~5,000 DAS channels and the nearby broadband station GSC, we first compute receiver functions for DAS channels using the vertical‐component GSC velocity as an approximation for the incident source wavelet. The Moho P‐to‐s conversions are clearly visible on DAS receiver functions. We then derive meter‐scale arrival time measurements along the entire 20‐km‐long array. We are also able to measure path‐averaged Rayleigh wave group velocity and local Rayleigh wave phase velocity. The latter, however, has large uncertainties. Our study suggests that DAS will likely play an important role in many fields of passive seismology in the near future.

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© 2019 American Geophysical Union. Accepted manuscript online: 28 January 2019; Manuscript accepted: 19 January 2019; Manuscript revised: 08 January 2019; Manuscript received: 06 November 2018. We thank Greg Anderson, Mark Chen, Michael Lucero, Rosemary Cobb, Gary Warnick, and Jose Perez from the JPL Deep Space Network (DSN) for permission to use the optical fiber and assistance in data collection. We would also like to thank Silixa for DAS acquisition support during the GOLFS deployment. Constructive comments from editor Jeroen Ritsema, Nori Nakata and an anonymous reviewer are appreciated. This work is partially supported by the National Science Foundation Grants 1722879 and 1829496, the Caltech Discovery Fund, and the President's and Director's Fund. J. Ajo‐Franklin, M. Robertson, and DAS acquisition efforts were supported by the Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory under U.S. Department of Energy Contract DE‐AC02‐05CH11231. Field support was provided by the Geoscience Measurement Facility (GMF), Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. N. Lindsey was supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship under Grant DGE 1106400. Broadband seismic waveform data for the GSC station are retrieved from the Caltech/USGS SCSN (doi:10.7914/SN/CI) stored at SCEDC (doi:10.7909/C3WD3xH1).

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