S53E:
Induced Seismicity in the United States and Canada III

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Session ID#: 17938

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

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:

Evidence for Transient Hydromechanical and Frictional Faulting Responses During the 2011 Mw 5.6 Prague, Oklahoma, USA Earthquake Sequence (Invited) (136035)
Jack Hunter Norbeck and Roland Nicholas Horne, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Source characteristics of the Fairview, OK, earthquake sequence and its relationship to industrial activities (181553)
William L Yeck, USGS National Earthquake Information Center, Golden, United States, Matthew Weingarten, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Harley Benz, USGS Central Region Offices Denver, Denver, CO, United States, Daniel E McNamara, USGS National Earthquake Information Center Golden, Golden, CO, United States, Robert B. Herrmann, Saint Louis University Main Campus, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Saint Louis, MO, United States, Justin L Rubinstein, USGS, Menlo Park, CA, United States, Paul S Earle, USGS, Baltimore, United States and Eric Bergman, Penn State University, State College, PA, United States
LArge-n Seismic Survey in Oklahoma (LASSO): Probing Injection-Induced Seismicity with a Dense Array (Invited) (143012)
Sara L Dougherty, U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Science Center, Pasadena, CA, United States, Elizabeth S Cochran, USGS Pasadena Field Office, Pasadena, CA, United States and Rebecca M Harrington, Ruhr University Bochum, Institute of Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics, Bochum, Germany
Ellenburger wastewater injection and seismicity in North Texas (178348)
Matthew J Hornbach1, Madeline Jones2, Monique Maria Holt3, Heather DeShon4, Maria Beatrice Magnani4, Cliff Frohlich5, Brian William Stump6, Chris Hayward6 and Mary Elizabeth Layton7, (1)US Naval Research Laboratory, Ocean Sciences Division, Stennis Space Center, United States, (2)Southern Methodist University, Dallas, United States, (3)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (4)Southern Methodist University, Roy Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Dallas, TX, United States, (5)University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States, (6)Southern Methodist University, Roy Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Dallas, United States, (7)Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, United States
Numerical Modeling of Wastewater Injection in the Denver Basin combined disposal zone in northeast Colorado (152905)
Megan R.M. Brown, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Geological Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Shemin Ge, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Anne Sheehan, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States
An integrated investigation of the induced seismicity near Crooked Lake, Alberta, Canada in 2016 (166825)
Ruijia Wang, University of New Mexico Main Campus, Physics, Albuquerque, United States, Yu Jeffrey Gu, University of Alberta, Department of Physics, Edmonton, AB, Canada, Jiayue Shen, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada and Ryan Schultz, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Were the 1952 Kern County and 1933 Long Beach, California, Earthquakes Induced? (142032)
Susan Elizabeth Hough1, Victor C Tsai2, Robert Lewis Walker II3, Morgan T Page1 and Fred Aminzadeh3, (1)USGS Pasadena Field Office, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology, Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States

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