S54B:
Induced Seismicity in the United States and Canada IV

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Session ID#: 17933

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, Ryan Schultz, Alberta Geological Survey, Edmonton, AB, Canada and Matthew Weingarten, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Chairs:  Carsten Dinske, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany and Ryan Schultz, Alberta Geological Survey, Edmonton, AB, Canada
OSPA Liaison:  Cornelius Langenbruch, Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, 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:

Update of the USGS 2016 One-year Seismic Hazard Forecast for the Central and Eastern United States From Induced and Natural Earthquakes (Invited) (163909)
Mark David Petersen1, Charles S Mueller1, Morgan P Moschetti2, Susan M Hoover3, Andrea L Llenos4, William L Ellsworth5, Andrew Jay Michael6, Justin L Rubinstein7, Arthur McGarr6 and Kenneth S Rukstales8, (1)Denver Federal Center, Lakewood, CO, United States, (2)USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, CO, United States, (3)USGS, Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, CO, United States, (4)USGS, Baltimore, MD, United States, (5)Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States, (6)USGS Western Regional Offices Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (7)USGS, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (8)US Geological Survey, Lakewood, CO, United States
Effects of Regulation on Induced Seismicity in Southern Kansas (149703)
Justin L Rubinstein, USGS, Menlo Park, CA, United States, William L Ellsworth, Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States and Sara L Dougherty, U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Science Center, Pasadena, CA, United States
Proximity of Wastewater Disposal and Hydraulic Fracturing to Crystalline Basement Affects the Likelihood of Induced Seismicity in the Central and Eastern United States (174380)
Mike R Brudzinski, Miami University (OH), Department of Geology and Environmental Earth Science, Oxford, United States, Robert Skoumal, Miami University Oxford, Oxford, OH, United States and Brian Currie, Miami University Oxford, Oxford, United States
Mitigating Induced Seismicity Through Active Pressure Management in Numerical Simulations (122892)
Kayla Kroll1, Keith B Richards-Dinger2 and Joshua A White1, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)University of California Riverside, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Riverside, CA, United States
Estimation of Fault Slip Potential Resulting From fluid Injection (184922)
Rall Walsh, Stanford University, geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States, Darren Pais, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Spring, TX, United States, Timothy Tyrrell, XTO Energy, Spring, TX, United States and Mark D Zoback, Stanford University, Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States
The Largest Hydraulic Fracturing – Induced Earthquake in Canada: Source Characteristics and Seismic Hazard Implications of the August 17, 2015, Mw 4.6 Earthquake in Northeast British Columbia (161133)
Honn Kao, Geological Survey of Canada Pacific, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Alireza Babaie Mahani, Geoscience BC, Vancouver, BC, Canada and Ryan Schultz, Alberta Geological Survey, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Ground Motion Prediction Equation for Earthquakes in Oklahoma (Invited) (182510)
Emrah Yenier1, Gail Marie Atkinson2 and Dario Baturan1, (1)Nanometrics Inc, Kanata, ON, Canada, (2)University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
Ground motions from induced earthquakes in Oklahoma and Kansas and the implications for seismic hazard (142580)
Morgan P Moschetti1, Steven Rennolet2, Eric Thompson1, William Yeck3, Daniel E McNamara2, Robert B Herrmann4, Peter Powers1 and Susan M Hoover5, (1)USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, CO, United States, (2)USGS Central Region Offices Denver, Denver, CO, United States, (3)USGS National Earthquake Information Center, Golden, CO, United States, (4)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (5)USGS, Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, CO, United States
Empirical Analysis and Prognosis of the Induced Seismic Activity Rate of a Depleting Gas Reservoir in Time and Space (177227)
Marc Hettema1,2, Bastiaan Jaarsma2, Marloes Kortekaas2, Guido van Yperen2, Barthold Schroot2 and Berend Scheffers2, (1)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (2)EBN, Technology, Utrecht, Netherlands

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