S52B:
Induced Seismicity in the United States and Canada II

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Session ID#: 17928

Session Description:
The increase of man-made earthquakes in the United States and Canada has generated immense research effort to understand and mitigate seismicity caused by fluid movement in the Earth’s brittle crust. Waste water disposal and hydraulic fracturing appear to be the main two causes of induced seismicity. However, physical process understanding of fluid induced seismicity at multiple scales will contribute to understanding and mitigation of induced seismicity. Moreover, it is important to understand differences and similarities of induced and natural earthquakes. We invite contributions related to induced and triggered earthquakes in the United States and Canada. Case studies, geomechanics, numerical modelling, laboratory experiments, ground motion prediction, statistical and quantitative methods and seismic hazard assessment and mitigation are welcome.
Primary Convener:  Cornelius Langenbruch, Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, United States
Conveners:  Carsten Dinske, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Matthew Weingarten, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States and Ryan Schultz, Alberta Geological Survey, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Chairs:  Carsten Dinske, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany and Cornelius Langenbruch, Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Matthew Weingarten, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • NG - Nonlinear Geophysics
  • T - Tectonophysics
Index Terms:

4475 Scaling: spatial and temporal [NONLINEAR GEOPHYSICS]
7209 Earthquake dynamics [SEISMOLOGY]
7223 Earthquake interaction, forecasting, and prediction [SEISMOLOGY]
8164 Stresses: crust and lithosphere [TECTONOPHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Injection-induced earthquakes on basement faults caused by injection into sedimentary reservoirs (178176)
Zhiqiang Fan1, Peter Eichhubl1 and Pania Newell2, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, TX, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States
Discriminating Induced-Microearthquakes Using New Seismic Features (128779)
Steve Horton and S. Mostafa Mousavi, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, United States
A Viscoplastic Stress Relaxation Model for Predicting Variations of the Least Principal Stress With Depth in Unconventional Reservoirs (Invited) (175192)
Mark D Zoback, Stanford Univ, Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States, Shaochuan Xu, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Fatemeh Rassouli, Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States and Xiaodong Ma, Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States
Geomechanical modelling of induced seismicity using Coulomb stress and pore pressure changes (Invited) (142422)
Bodi Zhao, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada and Robert Shcherbakov, University of Western Ontario, Department of Earth Sciences, London, ON, Canada
Cluster Analysis and Fault Identification from Earthquake Catalog (129432)
Veronika Vasylkivska and Dr. Nicolas J Huerta, PhD, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Albany, OR, United States
Non-trivial Clustering and Inter-Event Triggering in Microseismicity Induced by Hydraulic Fracturing (189167)
Jörn Davidsen1, Samira Maghsoudi1 and David W S Eaton2, (1)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (2)University of Calgary, Department of Earth, Energy, and Environment, Calgary, AB, Canada
Convolutional Neural Networks for Earthquake Detection and Location of Seismicity in Central Oklahoma (183727)
Thibaut Perol, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, Michaël Gharbi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, United States and Marine Denolle, Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States

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