Patent Document ID: 9410421
Application ID: 13517229
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for characterizing natural fracture networks or other textural networks in an Earth formation, comprising: detecting microseismic data from a hydraulic fracturing event using a plurality of geophones; transmitting the microseismic data to a processor; identifying a subset of the microseismic data associated with one or more fractures produced by the hydraulic fracturing event, wherein the subset of the microseismic data comprises components of the microseismic data associated with the one or more hydraulic fractures; obtaining a remainder dataset of the microseismic data by removing the subset from the microseismic data; processing the remainder dataset of the microseismic data, and characterizing the natural fracture networks or the other textural networks in the location of the hydraulic fracturing event, wherein the microseismic data is projected onto a line, the line is partitioned into adjacent bins, a density function is defined for the seismic data along the line and clusters of seismic data are identified along the line.