S51A:
Induced and Triggered Earthquakes: Theory, Observations, Impact I Posters

Session ID#: 1647

Friday, 19 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Roland Gritto, Array Information Technology, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Philippe GM Jousset, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Primary Convener:  Roland Gritto, Array Information Technology, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Co-conveners:  Philippe GM Jousset, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, Won-Young Kim, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States and Honn Kao, Geological Survey Canada, Sidney, BC, Canada
OSPA Liaison:  Roland Gritto, Array Information Technology, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • H - Hydrology
  • T - Tectonophysics
Index Terms:
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
The ANF Catalog of Central United States Seismicity (30250)
Jonathan E Tytell1, Trilby A Cox2, Malcolm Charles Adan White1, Vladislav G Martynov1, Jennifer Eakins1 and Frank Vernon3, (1)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)UCSD, Butte, MT, United States, (3)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States
 
Characterization of Mining Induced Seismic Events Around Deep Level Mining Excavations in South Africa Using High-Precision Underground Monitoring (4116)
Alexander Michaylov Milev1, Pieter-Ewald Share2, Raymond J Durrheim1, Makoto Naoi3, Yasuo Yabe4, Hiroshi Ogasawara5 and Masao Nakatani6, (1)Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Johannesburg, South Africa, (2)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)Kyoto University, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto, Japan, (4)Tohoku University, Graduate School of Science, Sendai, Japan, (5)Ritsumeikan Univ, Kusatsu, Japan, (6)University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan
 
Dynamic Triggering of Microseismicity inferred from Spatio/Temporal Patterns in a Mine Setting (8889)
Fernando Castellanos and Mirko Van der Baan, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
 
Discriminating Mining Induced Seismicity from Natural Tectonic Earthquakes in the Wasatch Plateau Region of Central Utah (19673)
Jared R Stein1, Kristine L Pankow2, Keith D. D Koper1 and Michael K. McCarter1, (1)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (2)University of Utah, Geology & Geophysics, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
 
Detection of Induced Seismicity Due to Oil and Gas Extraction in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, USA (10457)
Oluwaseun Idowu Fadugba and John Ebel, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States
 
Statistical Discrimination of Induced and Tectonic Earthquake Sequences in Central and Eastern US Based on Waveform Detected Catalogs (11212)
Xiaofeng Meng, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, United States and Zhigang Peng, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, United States
 
Seismic Characterization of EGS Reservoirs (32068)
Dennise C Templeton1, Moira L. Pyle1, Eric Matzel1, Steve Myers2 and Gardar Johannesson1, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States
 
Characterizing Earthquake Clusters in Oklahoma Using Subspace Detectors (8653)
Nicole D McMahon, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Harley Benz, USGS National Earthquake Information Center, Golden, CO, United States, Richard C Aster, Colorado State University, Geosciences Department, Fort Collins, United States, Daniel E McNamara, USGS National Earthquake Information Center Golden, Golden, CO, United States and Emma K Myers, Western Washington University, Geology Department, Bellingham, WA, United States
 
Revised Earthquake Catalog and Relocated Hypocenters Near Fluid Injection Wells and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Southeastern New Mexico (19759)
Stanislav Edel1, Susan L Bilek2 and Kymberley Garcia1, (1)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, United States, (2)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Earth and Environmental Science, Socorro, United States
 
Waveform Cross-Correlation for Improved North Texas Earthquake Locations (8763)
Mason Phillips, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Heather DeShon, Southern Methodist University, Roy Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Dallas, TX, United States, Harrison R. Oldham, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, United States and Chris Hayward, Southern Methodist University, Roy Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Dallas, United States
 
The Usage of Correlation Method for Micro-Earthquake Analysis at Salavatlı Geothermal Area, Aydın, Turkey. (12508)
Esra Kalkan1, Cemil Gurbuz1 and Ekrem Zor2, (1)Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, (2)TUBITAK, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, Marmara Research Center, Earth and Marine Sciences Institute, Gebze, Turkey
 
The 2014 Weld County, Colorado, Earthquakes: A developing case of induced seismicity? (29513)
William L Yeck1, Anne Sheehan2, Matthew Weingarten3 and Jenny Nakai1, (1)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, (3)University of Colorado, Boulder, United States
 
Modeling Injection Induced Seismicity with Poro-Elasticity and Time-Dependent Earthquake Nucleation (4310)
Shaoyu Lu, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States and Paul Segall, Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States
 
Was the Timpson, Texas, M4.8 event induced by fluid injection? (16226)
Zhiqiang Fan1, Peter Eichhubl1, Julia Gale1, Jon E Olson2, Cliff Frohlich3 and Valerie Gono2, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, TX, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Dept. of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering,, Austin, TX, United States, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States
 
Experimental investigation of remote seismic triggering by gas bubble growth in groundwater (16277)
Jackson B Crews and Clay A Cooper, Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States
 
Estimating pore fluid pressures during the Youngstown, Ohio earthquakes (16650)
Paul A Hsieh, US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States
 
Understanding North Texas Seismicity: A Joint Analysis of Seismic Data and 3D Pore Pressure Modeling (10515)
Heather DeShon1, Matthew J Hornbach2, William L Ellsworth3, Harrison R. Oldham4, Chris Hayward5, Brian William Stump5, Cliff Frohlich6, Jon E Olson7 and James H Luetgert8, (1)Southern Methodist University, Roy Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Dallas, TX, United States, (2)US Naval Research Laboratory, Ocean Sciences Division, Stennis Space Center, United States, (3)Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States, (4)Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, United States, (5)Southern Methodist University, Roy Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Dallas, United States, (6)University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States, (7)Univ Texas, Austin, TX, United States, (8)US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States
 
Source Mechanisms of Low Frequency Seismicity in a Hydraulic Fracturing Context (6483)
Megan Zecevic1, Guillaume Daniel2, Fabien Hubans2 and Pierre Gouedard2, (1)University of Calgary, Geoscience, Calgary, Canada, (2)Magnitude France, Sainte Tulle, France
 
Effect of Overpressure Caused By Clay Dehydration on the Triggering of Fault Slip (7059)
Wen-Sheng Lin, National Taiwan University, Hydrotech Research Institute, Taipei, Taiwan, Chen-Wuing Liu, National Taiwan University, Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering, Taipei, Taiwan and HAN-Yuan Chang, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan
 
Monitoring the Pollino Earthquake Swarm (Italy) (10063)
Dirk Roessler1, Luigi Passarelli1, Aladino Govoni2 and Eleonora Rivalta3, (1)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (2)National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy, (3)GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
 
Comprehensive Understanding of the Zipingpu Reservoir to the Ms8.0 Wenchuan Earthquake (6336)
Huihong Cheng1, Yajin Pang1, Huai Zhang1 and Yaolin Shi2, (1)Grad Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing, China, (2)University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
 
Natural reservoirs and triggered seismicity: a study of two northern Utah Lakes (24438)
Katherine Murphy Whidden1, Kristel Hansen1, Mindy Timothy1, M. Shawn Boltz1, Kristine L Pankow2 and Keith D. D Koper1, (1)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (2)University of Utah, Geology & Geophysics, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
 
The Zipingpu Reservoir Triggering of the 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan Earthquake, China, Due to Poroelastic Coupling (11661)
TAO Wei, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China, Zhengkang Shen, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States, Tim Masterlark, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, Rapid City, United States and Erika Ronchin, Institute of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera, Spanish National Research Council, Barcelona, Spain
 
Response of Changes in Water Levels and Water Radon on the Observed Seismicity Along Longmenshan Fault (10775)
Anhua He, Institute of Crustal Dynamics, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China, Qing Ye, CENC China Earthquake Networks Center, Beijing, China and Ramesh P Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, School of Engineering, Mandi, India
 
Micro Events around Zipingpu Reservoir before 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake: Possible Influence of Impoundment (14828)
Shujuan Mao1, Jin Han2, Mengyu Wu1, Jiawei Chen3, Chi-Chia Tang4, Jiaqi Li1 and Jieyuan Ning1, (1)School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China, (2)Sichuan Earthquake Bureau, Sichuan, China, (3)The Institute of Crustal Dynamics, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China, (4)China University of Geosciences Wuhan, Wuhan, China
 
Elastic Velocity Updating through Image-Domain Tomographic Inversion of Passive Seismic Data (8267)
Ben Witten and Jeffrey C Shragge, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
 
Virtual Seismometer and Adjoint Methods for Induced Seismicity Monitoring (28633)
Christina Morency and Eric Matzel, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
 
Predicting Offshore Swarm Rate Changes by Volumetric Strain Changes in Izu Peninsula, Japan (7686)
Takao Kumazawa, ISM Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo, Japan, Yosihiko Ogata, Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo, Japan, Youichi Kimura, Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, Kenji Maeda, Meteorological Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan and Akio Kobayashi, Meteorological Research Institute of Japan, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
 
Tidal and surface wave triggering of earthquakes at injection and geothermal sites across the United States (13518)
Shane Cooper, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States, Amanda Thomas, University of Oregon, Department of Earth Sciences, Eugene, United States and Randy D Krogstad, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
 
Investigation of Remotely Triggered Tremor and Earthquakes in Latin America (31914)
Hector Gonzalez-Huizar, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, United States and Aaron A Velasco, The University of Texas at El Paso, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Resource Sciences, El Paso, TX, United States
 
Annual Variation of Seismicity due to Surface Loads in Normal Fault Systems in Southern Tibet (15396)
Yunfeng Tian, Yi Luo, Yongsheng Li, Xin Wang and Jingfa Zhang, Institute of Crustal Dynamics, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China
 
Magnitude-Frequency Distribution for Potentially Induced Earthquakes in the Guy, Arkansas Sequence (13185)
Yihe Huang, Stanford Center for Induced and Triggered Seismicity, Stanford, CA, United States and Gregory C Beroza, Stanford University, Los Altos Hills, CA, United States
 
Maximum Magnitudes of Earthquakes in Geothermal Fields? (27718)
Deborah A Weiser1,2, David D Jackson3 and Lucile Jones2, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)USGS Pasadena Field Office, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Science, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
A probabilistic assessment of waste water injection induced seismicity in central California (13916)
Thomas Goebel1, Egill Hauksson2, Jean Paul Ampuero2, Fred Aminzadeh3, Frederic Cappa4 and Jason Saleeby5, (1)University of Memphis, Center for Earthquake Research and Information, Memphis, TN, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States, (4)Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, IRD, Géoazur, Sophia-Antipolis, France, (5)CALTECH, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Dynamic Response of Intraplate Seismicity to the 2011 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake (14308)
Soung Eil Houng, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South) and Tae-Kyung Hong, Yonsei University, Earth System Sciences, Seoul, South Korea
 
Analysis of Triggering of Earthquakes and Tremor in the Western U.S. due to the 2010 El Mayor Cucapah Earthquake and the Mw6.8 Mendocino Triple Junction Earthquake in 2014 (14727)
Rachel Lauren Hatch Ibarra, Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA, United States and Jascha Polet, California State Polytechnic University Pomona, Pomona, CA, United States
 
Coupled Flow and Geomechanical Modeling of Fluid Production and Injection in the Cavone Oil Field, Northern Italy: an Assessment of the Potential for Induced Seismicity (16292)
Birendra Jha1, Andreas Plesch2, John H Shaw2, Bradford H Hager3 and Ruben Juanes4, (1)University of Southern California, Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Los Angeles, United States, (2)Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Resources Laboratory, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
Balancing induced seismicity and permeability creation through aseismic deformation (19452)
Martin Schoenball, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States; Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany and Thomas Kohl, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Applied Geosciences (AGW), Karlsruhe, Germany
 
Geomechanical modeling of induced microseismicity (24143)
Mirko Van der Baan1, Drew Chorney1,2 and Vincent Marc Roche1, (1)University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (2)Itasca, Calgary, AB, Canada
 
Elastic Rock Heterogeneity Controls Brittle Rock Failure during Hydraulic Fracturing (17377)
Cornelius Langenbruch and Serge Alexander Shapiro, Freie Universität Berlin, Geophysics, Berlin, Germany
 
Velocity structure of The Geysers geothermal area (California) from ambient noise cross-correlation. (22454)
Sebastian Specht1, Philippe GM Jousset2, Arno Zang2, Roland Gritto3 and David Bruhn2, (1)Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Potsdam, Germany, (2)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (3)Array Information Technology, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Site Specific Probabilistic Seismic Hazard and Risk Analysis for Surrounding Communities of The Geysers Geothermal Development Area (31279)
Mamun Miah, University of Mississippi Main Campus, University, MS, United States, Lawrence J Hutchings, LBNL-Earth Sciences, Berkeley, CA, United States and Jean b Savy, SRC, Oakland, CA, United States
 
Stability and Uncertainty of Full Moment Tensor Solutions for M < 3.5 Induced Earthquakes (24996)
O. Sierra Boyd, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and Douglas Scott Dreger, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Joint Inversion of Source Location and Source Mechanism of Induced Microseismics (20296)
Chuntao Liang, Chengdu University of Technology, Geophysics, Chengdu, China
 
Investigation of Seismic Events Associated with the Sinkhole at Napoleonville Salt Dome, Louisiana (26564)
Avinash Nayak, Berkeley Seismological Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States and Douglas Scott Dreger, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Analysis of Seismicity Coincident with Hydraulic Fracturing of a Well in Southern Oklahoma (24204)
Amberlee Patrice Darold1, Austin A Holland2 and Amie Gibson1, (1)Oklahoma Geological Survey, Leonard, OK, United States, (2)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States
 
Earthquakes Induced by Hydraulic Fracturing in Poland Township, Ohio (26449)
Robert Skoumal, U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Science Center, Moffett Field, United States, Mike R Brudzinski, Miami University (OH), Department of Geology and Environmental Earth Science, Oxford, United States and Brian Scott Currie, Miami University, Department of Geology & Environmental Earth Science, Oxford, United States
 
Fracture and Medium Modeling, by Analizing Hidraulic Fracturing Induced Microseismicity (22532)
Sebastian Gomez Alba and Carlos Alberto Vargas Jiménez, Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Bogota, Bogotá, Colombia
 
Rupture Events Inferred from the Injection Induced Seismicity at Castor UGS, offshore Castellón, Spain (29886)
Mikel Diez1, Rodrigo Del Potro2 and Pablo Palacios2, (1)University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom, (2)University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
 
Development of a Detailed Stress Map of Oklahoma for Avoidance of Potentially Active Faults When Siting Wastewater Injection Wells (27314)
Richard Charles Alt II, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States and Mark D Zoback, Stanford University, Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States
 
Induced Seismicity in the Bakken: Much Ado about Almost Nothing (4204)
Cliff Frohlich1, Jacob I Walter1,2 and Julia Gale3, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States, (2)University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Geological Survey, Norman, United States, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, TX, United States
 
Injection Induced Seismicity in Carbon and Emery Counties, Utah (6083)
Megan R.M. Brown, University of Missouri Columbia, Columbia, United States and Mian Liu, University of Missouri, Geological Sciences, Columbia, United States
 
Optimizing Multi-Station Template Matching to Identify and Characterize Induced Seismicity in Ohio (29063)
Mike R Brudzinski, Miami University (OH), Department of Geology and Environmental Earth Science, Oxford, United States, Robert Skoumal, U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Science Center, Moffett Field, United States and Brian Scott Currie, Miami University, Department of Geology & Environmental Earth Science, Oxford, United States
 
Differentiating Tectonic and Anthropogenic Earthquakes in the Greater Los Angeles Basin, Southern California (14646)
Egill Hauksson1, Thomas Goebel1, Elizabeth S Cochran2 and Jean Paul Ampuero1, (1)California Institute of Technology, Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Science Center, Pasadena, United States
 
Potential of ambient noise techniques to monitor reservoir dynamics at the St. Gallen geothermal site (22325)
Anne Obermann, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Eric Francois Larose, ISTerre Institute of Earth Sciences, Saint Martin d'Hères, France and Stefan Wiemer, ETH Zurich, Swiss Seismological Service, Zurich, Switzerland
 
Ground Motion Attenuation and Shear-Wave Splitting Analyses for the November 2011 M5.7 Prague, Oklahoma Earthquake (10738)
Danielle F Sumy, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology - IRIS, Washington, United States, Elizabeth S Cochran, U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Science Center, Pasadena, United States, Katie M Keranen, Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States, Corrie Neighbors, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States and Gail Marie Atkinson, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
 
A Site Characterization Protocol for Evaluating the Potential for Triggered or Induced Seismicity Resulting from Wastewater Injection and Hydraulic Fracturing (9787)
Randi J Walters1, Mark D Zoback2, Abhineet Gupta1, Jack W Baker3 and Gregory C Beroza1, (1)Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford Univ, Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States, (3)Stanford Univ, Stanford, United States
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