mXrap News and Events
Here you will find all the latest news, blog posts and information on upcoming mXrap events.
mXrap Events
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23 September 2024 | Montreal, Canada
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mXrap blog posts
A new app has appeared in the Rock Mass Data Analyser suite: the Geotechnical Domains Delimiter. This app allows you to create your own geotechnical …
RMDA app: new geotechnical domains delimiter app and more! Read More »
A new window has been added to the Hazard Assessment app (Figure 1). The sensitivity analysis aims to quantify the effect of the variation of …
mXrap Developer Updates – August 2023 If you would like to access these updates and require a root upgrade, please contact the support email address …
There have been a number of recent updates to the Short-term Response Analysis app. These include: Chart for determining re-entry using different parameters: This chart …
For a few months now, a new tool has appeared in the General Analysis app; the hanging wall (HW) and footwall (FW) filter. The HW–FW …
Bundles are a form of protection which we use to limit access to specific parts of mXrap applications. One of the primary incentives behind the …
The upgrade to mXrap version 5.16 introduced a variety of changes and improvements to marker styles. The changes can be separated into general updates which …
With the holidays approaching we thought we would send everyone some mXmas presents! And obviously what everyone wants for mXmas are mXrap videos 😊. These …
Energy and moment are two independent measures of the strength of a seismic event. Their physical meaning and how they are calculated was described in …
For users who have upgraded to mXrap version 5.16+, you may have noticed the new mXsync button at the bottom left of all of the …
The Caving Suite is a set of applications that provide tools for the analysis and interpretation of cave monitoring data sources. Currently, four apps are …
The Rock Mass Data Analyser (RMDA) application allows a user to import various types of geotechnical data (rock mass quality, structural, stress and intact rock …
Have you ever been using mXrap and wanted to reset your filters or reset all your variables to the defaults? We have a button for …
If you use Datamine at your site, we now have a tool to help you batch convert the datamine TR and PT files into mXrap-readable …
We have made a couple of changes to the Paste Backfill Design application since the original release. See the previous blog post for the main …
We have developed a new app to aid in the design of paste backfill in stoping operations. The app has tools to help you to: …
The Rock Mass Data Analyser (RMDA) application allows a user the ability to input various types of geotechnical data into mXrap, creating a geotechnical database …
The Large Event Analysis app has receieved a number of upgrades recently. These upgrades focus on analysing seismicity in the immediate time before/after a large …
There are a number of updates to the Grid Based Analysis app. The first is the ability to use multiple planes for analysis instead of …
The Grid Based Analysis application can be used to evaluate the spatial distribution of various seismic parameters. There are a range of source parameter options …
A few new features have been added to the Hazard Assessment application, aiming to improve usability, understanding and investigation. The first addition is a chart …
The mXrap survey import tool now supports files saved in Deswik’s VDCL and DCF formats. There is also preliminary support for the Deswik Unified File …
Mine Geometry Model Minode Generator is a new utility app which enables you to generate your own new minodes from a mine geometry model. If …
The Grid Based Analysis now has a plane based function. The user can select a plane (defined in the plane editor window) and display cumulative …
A new window has been added to analyse seismicity in the Large Event Analysis application. In a similar approach to the Short-term Response Analysis app, …
Two new charts have been added to the General Analysis application related to assessing hazard with the frequency-magnitude relationship. The new charts plot various hazard …
The new background filters have been added to the Hazard Assessment application. The time of day filter can be used to see the effect of …
As mentioned in the last blog post, a stochastic declustering algorithm has been implemented in mXrap to separate events into ‘clustered’ and ‘background’ components. It …
We have added some new event filter options to general analysis related to ‘background’ activity. ‘Background’ events are generally defined as having low variability in …
CheX is mXrap’s new system for setup and support. It is a checklist-based website which helps users to follow step-by-step instructions to complete tasks such …
mXrap.com has a new training videos website! The new website has an improved interface and revamped training programme, along with some new videos (including event …
mXrap now has a video creation panel! To create your videos, simply open the ‘video export’ panel. You can then choose whether you want to …
Moment tensor analysis is a topic that carries a decent level of uncertainty and confusion for many people. So I’m going to lay it out …
The isosurfaces for b-value have been upgraded in the latest root. There is now much more control over the isosurface levels. Up to 5 iso’s …
Moment tensors have been added to the General Analysis application in the recent update. Beach balls and principal axes can be viewed in the General …
A simple utility app has been added to the main root that can be used to export surveys loaded in mXrap. Possible reasons to use …
The seismic monitoring applications have been modified in the latest root update. There are now two seismic monitoring applications and a third app for setup. …
Another new app has been added to the Seismic Suite for the general analysis of short-term seismic responses. There are multiple features to analyse the …
The root upgrade that coincides with the software upgrade beyond v5.9 includes a new app for creating and exporting models of mine geometry. Stope, cave …
We have started rolling out a new version of the mXrap software and root folder. Software versions 5.9 and above include a few interface changes. …
Are your surveys really slow to load? Are you having difficulty rotating your 3D view? The problem might be the level of detail in your …
Are you unable to see your surveys, but can’t work out why? Are some of your surveys located a long way away from the rest …
The grid-based hazard calculations in the Hazard Assessment app were discussed in a previous post. The Iso View describes the hazard at all locations within …
The strong ground motion (SGM) relationship is used to calculate the peak particle velocity (PPV) generated by a seismic event. You may also hear this …
As part of the ACG’s Ground Support Guidelines for Rockburst Prone Conditions research project, we have developed an application for damage mapping. It is a …
The Iso View in the Hazard Assessment application expresses the seismic hazard in two ways. The current yearly hazard within the chosen grid volume. This …
Minodes are what we use in multiple places in mXrap if we want to assign information to development. They are just point locations, dotted along …
As mentioned in the last blog post, energy and moment are independently calculated based on the displacement and velocity spectra of the recorded waveforms. Another …
You know that energy and moment are parameters to describe seismic events. But what exactly is their physical meaning for a seismic event source and …
Did you know you can download root folders from mXsync? We have uploaded root folders for Tasmania and Big Bell mines. These sites have closed …
We have added some new features to the Hazard Assessment app to calculate the minode hazard for filter volumes. This works just like the current …
Probabilistic seismic hazard calculations are dependent on the number of events (N) and the b-value. But which has more effect on the hazard result? The …
Yes, this is a frequently asked question…. MUL or MUpper-Limit refers to the truncating magnitude of the Gutenberg-Richter distribution. We used to refer to this …
We started making training videos about 12 months ago and feedback has been quite positive. At the last AGM, a suggestion came for a training …
Charts usually auto-adjust their ranges to the input data. This is often what you want, but occasionally it does make it harder to compare charts …
Most users are probably aware of the Quick Reference Guide in the Cheat Sheets. It lists all the mXrap shortcuts and hotkeys but it is …
The a/b value is sometimes used as a measure of seismic hazard but there are some common mistakes made with this analysis and interpretation. What …
You can now measure distances in any 3D view in mXrap (version 5.6.0 or later) with the ruler tool in the Annotations tab. The “Annotations …
There have been some interface changes made to the mXrap software in versions 5.6.6 or later. The right-hand-side controls have had a bit of a …
Changes to mXrap interface – right-hand-side panels Read More »
If you have updated your software to 5.4.0 or higher, you may have noticed some changes to the Survey Import tool. The Survey Setup training …
mXrap supports the following survey formats to be used in 3D views: DXF (AutoCAD .dxf) DTM / STR (Surpac .dtm/.str) PNT (.pnt) INP (Map3D Geometry …
When you are using the frequency-magnitude chart, it can be easy to forget it is log scale and this can distort a few things. Consider …
If you were wondering what a bored Xman does in their free time, this might give you an indication….. You should know by now that …
Some things you see in mXrap are properties of the software, while other things are properties of the root folder. We often use the software …
What’s the difference between updating the mXrap software and updating the root folder? Read More »
If you notice that you are not getting updated events in mXrap, there are a few possible explanations. In order to troubleshoot the problem, it …
There are many reasons you might want to store a short snippet of text associated with an event. There are two ways to do this …
In early versions of MS-RAP, the Omori chart included the cumulative energy as a function of time after blasting. You won’t find that line anymore …
Where is the cumulative energy line on the Omori chart? Read More »
You can capture or save any 3D view, chart or table using the ‘Clip’ or ‘File’ options at the top-right of the mXrap window. There …
People often notice that the local magnitude of an event in mXrap is different from the magnitude shown in their other seismic software. This is …
Why are the event magnitudes different in mXrap? Read More »
You can use selections to filter events in General Analysis. This gives you a lot more freedom than being restricted to the traditional min/max range …
Did you know that any 3D survey or surface can be displayed in solid or wireframe mode? Hit ‘W’ in the 3D view to switch …
By now most of you have probably heard of mXsync. It has been installed at all the current sponsor sites and we did explain briefly …
There are a number of quality filters applied to the event database before they are displayed in mXrap. This does sometimes cause confusion because a …
The default event local magnitude marker might not suit everyone. After all, a ML+1.0 might mean something completely different to you compared with the site …
We previously created a Basic Seismic Monitoring app but it didn’t get widely used. We’ve taken another swing at a new version released late in …
The distance to survey filter has been around for a while but now we have added a couple of new charts to further investigate the …
Seismicity Versus Distance to Surveys – New Charts in General Analysis Read More »
If you want to learn more about mXrap, we don’t have a user manual to read. Who would want to read through one of those! …