Patent 7663970 was granted and assigned to Microseismic, Inc. on February, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method for seismic event mapping includes transforming seismic signals recorded at selected positions into a domain of possible spatial positions of a source of seismic events. An origin in spatial position and time of at least one seismic event is determined from space and time distribution of at least one attribute of the transformed seismic data.