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Distributed acoustical sensing (DAS) is a new kind of elastic wave signals recorders, and has been applied a lot in borehole for monitoring of hydraulic fracturing projects ( Jin et al., 2017 ; Wu et al., 2023 ). Therefore, the elastic wavefield response of microseismic events for DAS has been studied a lot (Zhang et al., 2020; Vera Rodriguez and Wuestefeld, 2020; Luo et al., 2021). Recently, distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) has been applied for near surface velocities imaging and attracted many researchers’ attention ( Ajo-Franklin et al., 2019 ; Nayak et al., 2021 ; Li et al., 2022 ). This abstract focuses on building a three-dimensional numerical model for Rayleigh surface wave response for a phase-sensitive optical time domain reflectometry (ϕ-OTDR) DAS system. On the basis of this numerical model, not only can the characteristics of DAS data under different fiber layout methods be further studied, but it can also provide a basis for waveform inversion and imaging.