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

Friday, 19 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Roland Gritto, Array Information Technology, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Philippe GM Jousset, GFZ, Potsdam, Germany
Primary Conveners:  Roland Gritto, Array Information Technology, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Co-conveners:  Philippe GM Jousset, GFZ, Potsdam, Germany, Won-Young Kim, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States and Honn Kao, Geological Survey Canada, NORTH SAANICH, BC, Canada
OSPA Liaisons:  Roland Gritto, Array Information Technology, Greenbelt, MD, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
The ANF Catalog of Central United States Seismicity
Jonathan E Tytell1, Trilby A Cox2, Malcolm Charles Adan White1, Vladislav G Martynov1, Jennifer A Eakins1 and Frank Vernon1, (1)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)UCSD, Butte, MT, United States
 
Characterization of Mining Induced Seismic Events Around Deep Level Mining Excavations in South Africa Using High-Precision Underground Monitoring
Alexander Michaylov Milev1, Pieter E 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, Kyoto, Japan, (4)Tohoku University, 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
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
Jared R Stein, Kristine L Pankow, Keith D Koper and Michael K McCarter, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
 
Detection of Induced Seismicity Due to Oil and Gas Extraction in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, USA
Oluwaseun Idowu Fadugba and John Ebel, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States
 
Seismic Characterization of EGS Reservoirs
Dennise C Templeton, Moira L. Pyle, Eric Matzel, Steve Myers and Gardar Johannesson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
 
Characterizing Earthquake Clusters in Oklahoma Using Subspace Detectors
Nicole D McMahon1, Harley Benz2, Richard C Aster3, Daniel E McNamara2 and Emma K Myers4, (1)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)USGS National Earthquake Information Center Golden, Golden, CO, United States, (3)Colorado State University, Geosciences Department, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (4)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
Stanislav Edel1, Susan L Bilek2 and Kymberley Garcia1, (1)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, United States, (2)New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM, United States
 
Waveform Cross-Correlation for Improved North Texas Earthquake Locations
Mason Phillips1, Heather R DeShon2, Harrison R. Oldham2 and Chris Hayward2, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (2)Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, United States
 
The Usage of Correlation Method for Micro-Earthquake Analysis at Salavatlı Geothermal Area, Aydın, Turkey.
Esra Kalkan1, Cemil Gurbuz1 and Ekrem Zor2, (1)Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, (2)TUBITAK Marmara Res. Center, Kocaeli, Turkey
 
The 2014 Weld County, Colorado, Earthquakes: A developing case of induced seismicity?
William L Yeck, Anne F Sheehan, Matthew Weingarten and Jenny Nakai, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Modeling Injection Induced Seismicity with Poro-Elasticity and Time-Dependent Earthquake Nucleation
Shaoyu Lu, Stanford University, Los Altos Hills, CA, United States and Paul Segall, Dept Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States
 
Was the Timpson, Texas, M4.8 event induced by fluid injection?
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
Jackson B Crews and Clay A Cooper, Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States
 
Estimating pore fluid pressures during the Youngstown, Ohio earthquakes
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
Heather R DeShon1, Matthew J Hornbach1, William L Ellsworth2, Harrison R. Oldham1, Chris Hayward1, Brian William Stump1, Cliff Frohlich3, Jon E Olson4 and James H Luetgert2, (1)Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, United States, (2)US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States, (4)Univ Texas, Austin, TX, United States
 
Source Mechanisms of Low Frequency Seismicity in a Hydraulic Fracturing Context
Megan Zecevic, Guillaume Daniel, Fabien Hubans and Pierre Gouedard, Magnitude France, Sainte Tulle, France
 
Effect of Overpressure Caused By Clay Dehydration on the Triggering of Fault Slip
Wen-Sheng Lin1, Chen-Wuing Liu1 and HAN-Yuan Chang2, (1)National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, (2)National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan
 
Monitoring the Pollino Earthquake Swarm (Italy)
Dirk Roessler1, Luigi Passarelli1, Aladino Govoni2 and Eleonora Rivalta1, (1)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (2)National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy
 
Comprehensive Understanding of the Zipingpu Reservoir to the Ms8.0 Wenchuan Earthquake
Huihong Cheng, Ya Jing Pang, Huai Zhang and Yaolin Shi, Grad Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing, China
 
Natural reservoirs and triggered seismicity: a study of two northern Utah Lakes
Katherine Murphy Whidden, Kristel Hansen, Mindy Timothy, M. Shawn Boltz, Kristine L Pankow and Keith D Koper, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
 
The Zipingpu Reservoir Triggering of the 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan Earthquake, China, Due to Poroelastic Coupling
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, SD, 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
Anhua He, Institute of Crustal Dynamics, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China, Qing Ye, CENC China Earthquake Networks Center, Beijing, China and Ramesh P Singh, Chapman University, Orange, CA, United States
 
Micro Events around Zipingpu Reservoir before 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake: Possible Influence of Impoundment
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
Ben Witten and Jeffrey C Shragge, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
 
Virtual Seismometer and Adjoint Methods for Induced Seismicity Monitoring
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
Takao Kumazawa1, Yosihiko Ogata2, Youichi Kimura3, Kenji Maeda4 and Akio Kobayashi3, (1)ISM Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo, Japan, (2)Inst Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo, Japan, (3)Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, (4)Meteorological Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan
 
Tidal and surface wave triggering of earthquakes at injection and geothermal sites across the United States
Shane Cooper, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States, Amanda Thomas, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States and Randy D Krogstad, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
 
Investigation of Remotely Triggered Tremor and Earthquakes in Latin America
Hector Gonzalez-Huizar and Aaron A Velasco, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States
 
Annual Variation of Seismicity due to Surface Loads in Normal Fault Systems in Southern Tibet
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
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?
Deborah A Weiser1,2, David D Jackson1 and Lucile Jones2, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)USGS Pasadena Field Office, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
A probabilistic assessment of waste water injection induced seismicity in central California
Thomas Goebel1, Egill Hauksson2, Jean-Paul Ampuero2, Fred Aminzadeh1, Frederic Cappa3 and Jason Saleeby4, (1)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)GeoAzur, Valbonne, France, (4)CALTECH, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Dynamic Response of Intraplate Seismicity to the 2011 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake
Soung Eil Houng and Tae-Kyung Hong, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
 
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
Birendra Jha1, Andreas Plesch2, John H Shaw2, Bradford H Hager3 and Ruben Juanes1, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
Balancing induced seismicity and permeability creation through aseismic deformation
Martin Schoenball1,2 and Thomas Kohl2, (1)Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States, (2)Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
 
Geomechanical modeling of induced microseismicity
Mirko Van der Baan1, Drew Chorney1,2 and Vincent Roche1, (1)University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (2)Itasca, Calgary, AB, Canada
 
Elastic Rock Heterogeneity Controls Brittle Rock Failure during Hydraulic Fracturing
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.
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
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
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
Chuntao Liang, Chengdu University of Technology, Geophysics, Chengdu, China
 
Investigation of Seismic Events Associated with the Sinkhole at Napoleonville Salt Dome, Louisiana
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
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
Robert Skoumal, Michael R Brudzinski and Brian Scott Currie, Miami University, Oxford, OH, United States
 
Fracture and Medium Modeling, by Analizing Hidraulic Fracturing Induced Microseismicity
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
Mikel Diez, Rodrigo Del Potro and Pablo Palacios, 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
Richard Charles Alt II and Mark D Zoback, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
 
Evaluating the Relationship Between Seismicity and Subsurface Well Activity in Utah
Lia J Lajoie, Fugro Consultants, Inc. Lakewood, Lakewood, CO, United States and Scott E K Bennett, Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, CO, United States
 
Induced Seismicity in the Bakken: Much Ado about Almost Nothing
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 Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 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
Megan R.M. Brown and Mian Liu, University of Missouri Columbia, Columbia, MO, United States
 
Optimizing Multi-Station Template Matching to Identify and Characterize Induced Seismicity in Ohio
Michael R Brudzinski, Robert Skoumal and Brian Scott Currie, Miami University, Oxford, OH, United States
 
Differentiating Tectonic and Anthropogenic Earthquakes in the Greater Los Angeles Basin, Southern California
Egill Hauksson1, Thomas Goebel1, Elizabeth S Cochran2 and Jean Paul Ampuero1, (1)California Institute of Technology, Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)US Geological Survey, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Constraints on recent earthquake source parameters, fault geometry and aftershock characteristics in Oklahoma
Daniel E McNamara1, Harley Benz1, Robert B Herrmann2, Eric A Bergman1, Nicole D McMahon3 and Richard C Aster4, (1)USGS National Earthquake Information Center Golden, Golden, CO, United States, (2)St Louis Univ, Saint Louis, MO, United States, (3)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (4)Colorado State University, Geosciences Department, Fort Collins, CO, United States
 
Potential of ambient noise techniques to monitor reservoir dynamics at the St. Gallen geothermal site
Anne Obermann1, Eric Francois Larose2 and Stefan Wiemer1, (1)ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)ISTerre Institute of Earth Sciences, Saint Martin d'Hères, France
 
Ground Motion Attenuation and Shear-Wave Splitting Analyses for the November 2011 M5.7 Prague, Oklahoma Earthquake
Danielle F Sumy, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology - IRIS, Washington, DC, United States, Elizabeth S Cochran, US Geological Survey, Pasadena, CA, United States, Katie M Keranen, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, Corrie Neighbors, University of California Riverside, Chino, 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
Randi J Walters, Mark D Zoback, Abhineet Gupta, Jack Baker and Gregory C Beroza, Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA, United States
 
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