Ground vibrations are unavoidable in each rock blasting projects. The prediction of ground vibration components has a great importance in the minimisation of the environmental complaints. Estimating the particle velocity and other components of ground vibration with reliable approaches will be very useful in blast design. Peak particle velocity is the most important criterion for analysing dangers resulting from ground vibration. Up to now, researchers have proposed many different formulae to calculate this parameter, but none of them are applicable for all areas and based upon regional conditions such as geological, technical, geotechnical, rock mechanical and so on. Karoun 3 Project is located in southwest of Iran. The aim of this study is to predict peak particle velocity in this project. For this purpose, vibrations from the Karoun 3 excavations were measured and the recorded data were statistically analysed and two empirical relationships with good correlation were established.
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