Abstract:External environmental noise signals affect the early warning performance of microseismic monitoring systems for rock mass rupture disasters. An improved VMD-WT joint denoising method was proposed to address the nonlinear, highly random, and unstable characteristics of microseismic signals, along with the limitations of traditional VMD and WT algorithms in denoising. First, the GSWOA algorithm was used to optimize the decomposition number and penalty factor in the VMD process. The optimized parameters were substituted into the VMD algorithm to decompose the noisy signal into several IMF components. Next, the MI method classified the IMF components, retained the effective components, and reconstructed the signal. Finally, the GSWOA algorithm optimized the parameters of the improved threshold function in the WT algorithm for secondary denoising of the noisy signal. The feasibility and superiority of the improved joint denoising method were verified by denoising simulated signals. The method was further applied to real microseismic signals. Its denoising performance was evaluated using signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), root mean square error (RMSE), and mean square error (MSE). The results showed that, compared to the individual EMD, WT, and VMD denoising algorithms, and the EMD-SVD and VMD-SVD joint denoising methods, the improved VMD-WT method more effectively removed noise interference from microseismic signals while preserving the original signal information. This method provides a solid foundation for future early warning of rock mass rupture disasters using microseismic monitoring systems.