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Kano & Yanagidani 2006
Kano, Y. and Yanagidani, T. (2006). Broadband hydroseismograms observed by closed borehole wells in the Kamioka mine, central Japan: Response of pore pressure to seismic waves from 0.05 to 2 Hz. Journal of Geophysical Research 111: doi: 10.1029/2005JB003656. issn: 0148-0227.

We obtained broadband hydroseismograms by monitoring the pore pressure changes of a rock mass in the Kamioka mine, using borehole wells. The wellhead was sealed to maintain an undrained condition, under which there is no flow of water through the interface between the well and the rock mass. This reduces the wellbore storage effect, which can cause a high-frequency cutoff response for systems of conventional open wells and rock mass. Using these closed borehole wells, 16 hydroseismograms were recorded for earthquakes in a range of magnitudes of 4.5--7.9 and epicentral distances of 1.0¿--71.6¿. Direct P waves, SV waves converted to P, and Rayleigh phases are clearly observed on the hydroseismograms. The similarity between hydroseismograms and seismograms reveals a clear relationship between radial ground velocity and pore pressure. The relationship is expressed as a zero-order system, which is characterized by no distortion or time lag between the input and output, and the pore pressure has no coupling with shear deformation. These results are consistent with an undrained constitutive relation of linear poroelastic theory and confirm that the relation is valid for the seismic frequency range. We determined in situ values of pore pressure sensitivity to volumetric change of the rock mass, which were then used to estimate in situ Skempton coefficients with values of 0.70--0.85.

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Keywords
Physical Properties of Rocks, General or miscellaneous, Hydrology, Groundwater hydrology, Seismology, Seismic instruments and networks (0935, 3025), Seismology, Earthquake ground motions and engineering seismology
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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