S53E:
Induced and Triggered Earthquakes: Theory, Observations, Impact II

Session ID#: 4262

Friday, 19 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
3018 (Moscone West)
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:

7209 Earthquake dynamics [SEISMOLOGY]
7230 Seismicity and tectonics [SEISMOLOGY]
8123 Dynamics: seismotectonics [TECTONOPHYSICS]
Virtual Option?: Yes

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

S53E-01
Absence of Remote Triggering in Geothermal Fields Due to Human Activity (11752)
Qiong Zhang1, Guoqing Lin2 and Shuangyu Ge1, (1)University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (2)University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, Miami, FL, United States
S53E-02
Assessing Induced Seismicity Models for Use in Deep Geothermal Energy Projects (12954)
Eszter Király1, Jeremy D Zechar1, Valentin Gischig1, Dimitrios Karvounis2 and Stefan Wiemer2, (1)ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)ETH Zurich, Swiss Seismological Service, Zurich, Switzerland
S53E-03
The Impacts of Mechanical Stress Transfers Caused by Hydromechanical and Thermal Processes on Fault Stability during Hydraulic Stimulation in a Deep Geothermal Reservoir. (3034)
Pierre Jeanne1, Jonny Rutqvist2, Patrick F Dobson1, Mark Walters3, Craig Steven Hartline3 and Julio Garcia4, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Calpine Corporation, Middletown, CA, United States, (4)CALPINE, Middletown, CA, United States
S53E-04
Spatiotemporal Variations of Faulting Regimes and Source Parameters of Induced Seismicity: A Case Study from The Geysers Geothermal Field (15301)
Patricia Martínez-Garzón1, Grzegorz Kwiatek1, Hiroki Sone2, Marco Bohnhoff1, Georg Dresen1 and Craig Steven Hartline3, (1)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (2)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (3)Calpine Corporation, Middletown, CA, United States
S53E-05
Signatures of Fluid-Pressure Triggering, Natural and Induced: Comparing Migrating Earthquake Swarms in Long Valley Caldera, California and Azle, Texas (18558)
David R Shelly1, William L Ellsworth2, Emily K. Montgomery-Brown3, David P Hill1, Stephanie G Prejean4 and Margaret Mangan1, (1)US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States, (3)USGS, Cascades Volcano Observatory, Menlo Park, United States, (4)Alaska Volcano Observatory Anchorage, Anchorage, AK, United States
S53E-06
Is high-rate injection causing the increase in U.S. mid-continent seismicity? (24797)
Matthew Weingarten and Shemin Ge, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States
S53E-07
Induced Seismicity Monitoring at the Decatur, IL, CO2 Sequestration Demonstration Site (Invited) (6105)
Joern O Kaven, USGS, Baltimore, MD, United States, Stephen H Hickman, USGS, Menlo Park, United States, Arthur McGarr, USGS, Menlo Park, CA, United States and William L Ellsworth, Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States
S53E-08
­Is the Recent Increase in Seismicity in Southern Kansas Natural? (10383)
Justin L Rubinstein1, William L Ellsworth2, Andrea L Llenos3 and Stephen R Walter3, (1)USGS, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States, (3)US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States
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