S23C:
Induced Seismicity in the United States and Canada IV Posters

Submit an Abstract to this Session



Session ID#: 25639

Session Description:
The increased awareness of man-made earthquakes around the world has generated an intensive research effort to understand 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 in the United States and Canada. Globally, reservoir triggered seismicity continues to be a major concern. Process based modeling of fluid induced seismicity at multiple scales and in various regions is contributing to our understanding of the mechanisms and hazard of anthropogenic seismicity. This session features contributions related to induced and triggered seismicity based on case studies, geomechanics, numerical modelling, laboratory experiments, ground motion prediction, statistical and quantitative methods and seismic hazard assessment.
Primary Convener:  Cornelius Langenbruch, Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, United States
Conveners:  Carsten Dinske, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Yusuke Mukuhira, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States and Matthew Weingarten, Stanford University, School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States
Chairs:  Yusuke Mukuhira, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Carsten Dinske, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Cornelius Langenbruch, Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, United States and Matthew Weingarten, Stanford University, School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Cornelius Langenbruch, Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, United States
Co-Organized with:
Seismology, Hydrology, Nonlinear Geophysics, and Tectonophysics

Cross-Listed:
  • H - Hydrology
  • 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:

Microseismic Image-domain Velocity Inversion: Case Study From The Marcellus Shale (207268)
Ben Witten, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia and Jeffrey Shragge, Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geophysics, Golden, United States
Recent Earthquakes Mark the Onset of Induced Seismicity in Northeastern Pennsylvania (210032)
Patricia Martone1, Alex Nikulin2 and Jeffrey Pietras1, (1)Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, United States, (2)Binghamton University, Department of Geological Sciences and Environmental Studies, Binghamton, United States
Locations of injection-induced earthquakes in Oklahoma controlled by crustal structures (212496)
Shunping Pei, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Zhigang Peng, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States and Xiaowei Chen, The University of Oklahoma, School of Geology and Geophysics, Norman, OK, United States
Investigating the rupture direction of induced earthquakes in the Central US using empirical Green’s functions (219326)
Semechah K. Y. Lui, University of Toronto, Earth Sciences, Toronto, Canada and Yihe Huang, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Dependency of the injection induced seismicity b-value on the stress state of existing fractures (222290)
Yusuke Mukuhira, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Michael C Fehler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, Takatoshi Ito, Tohoku University, Institute of Fluid Science, Sendai, Japan, Hiroshi Asanuma, AIST - National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan and Markus O Häring, Häring Geo-Project, Liestal, Switzerland
Geophysical anomalies of Osage County and its relationship to Oklahoma seismicity (225611)
Kevin Crain1, Jefferson C Chang1,2 and Jacob I. Walter3, (1)Oklahoma Geological Survey, Norman, OK, United States, (2)USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, Hilo, HI, United States, (3)University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Geological Survey, Norman, OK, United States
Multiple change-point detection in spatio-temporal seismicity data (231264)
Bernhard Fiedler1, Gert Zoeller2, Matthias Holschneider1 and Sebastian Hainzl3, (1)University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, (2)University of Potsdam, Institute of Mathematics, Potsdam, Germany, (3)Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Potsdam, Germany
Geospatial cross-correlation analysis of Oklahoma earthquakes and saltwater disposal volume 2011 – 2016 (235320)
Ryan M Pollyea1, Neda Mohammadi2 and John E. Taylor2, (1)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Geosciences, Blacksburg, United States, (2)Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, GA, United States
Using a large-n nodal array to search for remote dynamic triggering in a region of induced seismicity in northern Oklahoma. (235787)
Andres Felipe Felipe Peña Castro, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Institute of Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics, Bochum, Germany, Sara L Dougherty, U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Science Center, Pasadena, CA, United States, Rebecca M Harrington, Ruhr University Bochum, Institute of Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics, Bochum, Germany and Elizabeth S Cochran, U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Science Center, Pasadena, United States
Large-N Array Observations of Injection-Induced Seismicity in Northern Oklahoma: the LASSO Experiment (245129)
Sara L Dougherty, USGS Pasadena Field Office, Pasadena, CA, United States, Elizabeth S Cochran, U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Science Center, Pasadena, United States and Rebecca M Harrington, Ruhr University Bochum, Institute of Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics, Bochum, Germany
Seismic Characterization of the Blue Mountain Geothermal Site (246799)
Dennise C Templeton, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, Eric Matzel, LLNL, Livermore, United States and Trenton Cladouhos, AltaRock Energy, Seattle, WA, United States
Stress Orientations in the Fort Worth Basin, Texas, Determined from Earthquake Focal Mechanisms (252259)
Louis Andrew Quinones, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States and Heather DeShon, Southern Methodist University, Roy Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Dallas, TX, United States
Geothermal Gradient impact on Induced Seismicity in Raton Basin, Colorado and New Mexico (255116)
Katherine Pfeiffer, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Shemin Ge, University of Colorado Boulder, Geological Sciences, Boulder, United States
Seismicity in Oklahoma Before Prague (255803)
Andrew A Delorey, Los Alamos National Laboratory, National Security Earth Science, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos, United States and Paul A Johnson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Spatially varying stress state in the central U.S. from joint inversion of focal mechanism and maximum horizontal stress data (266577)
Grace Carlson, Virginia Tech, Department of Geosciences, Blacksburg, United States, Kaj M Johnson, Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Bloomington, IN, United States and John A Rupp, Indiana Geological Survey, Bloomington, IN, United States
The impact of lake level variation on seismicity around XianNvShan fault in the Three Gorge area (270434)
WuLin Liao, Institute of Seismology, China Earthquake Administration, Wuhan, China, Jinggang Li, Institute of Seismology,CEA, Wuhan武汉, China and LiFen Zhang, Institute of Seismology,CEA, WuHan, China
Interpretation of Microseismicity Observed From Surface and Borehole Seismic Arrays During Hydraulic Fracturing in Shale - Bedding Plane Slip Model (272267)
Frantisek Stanek, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, 182, Czech Republic, Zuzana Jechumtalova, Inst. of Geophys. Acad. Sci., Prague 4, Czech Republic and Leo Eisner, Academy of Sciences of the CR, Prague, Czech Republic
Tomographic evidence for enhanced fracturing and permeability within the relatively aseismic Nemaha Fault Zone, Oklahoma (274454)
Nathan Thomas Stevens1, Katie M Keranen1 and Catherine Lambert2, (1)Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States, (2)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
Estimating the Maximum Magnitude of Induced Earthquakes With Dynamic Rupture Simulations  (274571)
Elizabeth Gilmour and Eric G Daub, Center for Earthquake Research and Information, Memphis, TN, United States
Imaging fault structure using cross-correlation and relative earthquake location from the IRIS Wavefields community dataset in Oklahoma (279967)
Theresa Sawi, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, Heather DeShon, Southern Methodist University, Roy Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Dallas, TX, United States, Paul Ogwari, Oklahoma Geological Survey, Norman, United States and Louis Quinones, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, United States
Fault Reactivation by Fluid Injection: Evidence from Magnetotelluric and Potential Field Imaging of Injected Wastewater in Seismogenic Faults in Pawnee, Oklahoma (281584)
Micah Mayle1, David Beckendorff1, Kerry Key2, Rob L Evans3 and Estella A Atekwana4, (1)Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, United States, (2)BlueGreen Geophysics, LLC, San Diego, United States, (3)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (4)University of California Davis, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States
Identifying Faults Associated with the 2001 Avoca Induced(?) Seismicity Sequence of Western New York State Using Potential Field Wavelets. (284069)
Franklin G Horowitz, Horowitz Consulting, Rochester, United States, Cynthia J Ebinger, Tulane University, School of Science & Engineering, New Orleans, United States and Teresa E Jordan, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States
Induced Seismicity in Greeley, CO: The Effects of Pore Pressure on Seismic Wave Character (297965)
Rebecca Holmes, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Kyren R. Bogolub, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Anne Sheehan, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States and Megan R.M. Brown, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Geological Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Learnings from the Monitoring of Induced Seismicity in Western Canada over the Past Three Years (261140)
Andrew Owen Moores, Dario Baturan, Emrah Yenier and Neil Spriggs, Nanometrics Inc, Kanata, ON, Canada
Linkages of fracture network geometry and hydro-mechanical properties to spatio-temporal variations of seismicity in Koyna-Warna Seismic Zone (231204)
Valentine O Mikhailov1, Kusumita Arora2, Alexander Ponomarev3, D. Gopinadh2, Vladimir Smirnov4, Y. Srinu2, N. Satyavani2, Adrien Selles5, Rajender Kumar Chadha2, Srinagesh Davulluri6 and N Purnachandra Rao7, (1)Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth RAS, Lomonosov Moscow state University, Moscow, Russia, (2)CSIR: National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India, (3)Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth RAS, Moscow, Russia, (4)Lomonosov Moscow state University, Moscow, Russia, (5)BRGM, Univ Montpellier, Indo-French Center for Groundwater Research, Hyderabad, India, (6)CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India, (7)National Center for Earth Science Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, India
Upper Crustal Structure and Earthquake Mechanism in the Xinfengjiang Water Reservoir, Guangdong, China (237338)
Lipeng He1, Xinlei Sun1, Hongfeng Yang2, Jialing Qin1, Yusong Shen3 and Xiuwei Ye3, (1)GIG Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Isotope Geochemistry, Guangzhou, China, (2)Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, (3)Guangdong Earthquake Agency, Guangzhou, China
New Understanding on the Tectonics and Seismogenesis in the World’s Premier Site of Reservoir Triggered Seismicity in the Koyna-Warna Region from Study of Earthquake Focal Mechanisms During the Last Five Decades (255893)
N Purnachandra Rao, National Center for Earth Science Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, India and Dodla Shashidhar, National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India
Ambient Noise Tomography in Koyna-Warna region. (268061)
Sunil Rohilla1, N Purnachandra Rao2, Peter Gerstoft3, Huajian Yao4, Hongjian Fang4 and Srinagesh Davulluri5, (1)NCS, Ministry of Earth Sciences India, New Delhi, India, (2)National Center for Earth Science Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, India, (3)Univ of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (4)USTC University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (5)CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India
Microseismic data records fault activation before and after a Mw 4.1 induced earthquake (226344)
Thomas Eyre, University of Calgary, Geoscience, Calgary, Canada and David W S Eaton, University of Calgary, Department of Earth, Energy, and Environment, Calgary, AB, Canada
Investigating the relationship between seismicity and fluid injection in the Barnett Shale, Texas using coupled poroelastic model and surface deformation data (296926)
Guang Zhai, TNO, Geological Survey of the Netherlands, Utrecht, Netherlands and Manoochehr Shirzaei, Virginia Tech, Department of Geosciences, Blacksburg, United States

See more of: Seismology