S14A:
Induced Seismicity in the United States and Canada II

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Session ID#: 32828

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:  N Purnachandra Rao, National Center for Earth Science Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, India and William L Ellsworth, Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Yusuke Mukuhira, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States

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:

Rate of Change in Lake Level and its Impact on Reservoir-triggered Seismicity (Invited) (236439)
David W Simpson, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology - IRIS, Washington, DC, United States
Artificial Water Reservoir Triggered Earthquakes at Koyna, India: Completion of the 3 km deep Pilot Borehole (227781)
Harsh K Gupta1, Virendra Mani Tiwari1, Hvs Satyanarayana1, Sukanta Roy1,2, Kusumita Arora1, Prasanta Kumar Patro1, Dodla Shashidhar1, K Mallika1, Vyasulu Venkata Akkiraju2, Surajit Misra2, Deepjyoti Goswami2, Nagaraju Podugu2 and Satrughna Mishra2, (1)National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India, (2)Borehole Geophysics Research Laboratory, Karad, India
Quantitative modeling of reservoir-triggered seismicity (Invited) (208485)
Sebastian Hainzl1, Flaminia Catalli2, Torsten Dahm2, Jens Heinicke3 and Heiko Woith2, (1)GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (2)GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (3)TU Bergakademie, Freiberg, Germany
Hydraulic Fracturing Completion Volume is Associated with Induced Earthquake Productivity in the Duvernay Play (256220)
Ryan Schultz, Alberta Geological Survey, Edmonton, AB, Canada, Gail Marie Atkinson, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, David W S Eaton, University of Calgary, Department of Earth, Energy, and Environment, Calgary, AB, Canada, Yu Jeffrey Gu, University of Alberta, Department of Physics, Edmonton, AB, Canada and Honn Kao, Geological Survey Canada, Sidney, BC, Canada
Two types of seismicity accompanying hydraulic fracturing in Harrison County, Ohio - implications for seismic hazard and seismogenic mechanism (278995)
Maria Kozlowska1, Mike R Brudzinski2, Paul A Friberg3, Robert Skoumal4, Nicholas D. Baxter1 and Brian Currie5, (1)Miami University Oxford, Oxford, OH, United States, (2)Miami University (OH), Department of Geology and Environmental Earth Science, Oxford, United States, (3)Instrumental Software Technologies, Inc., Saratoga Springs, United States, (4)U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Science Center, Moffett Field, United States, (5)Miami University Oxford, Oxford, United States
Source characterization of a small earthquake cluster at Edmond, Oklahoma using a very dense array (248825)
Raymond Ng, University of Oklahoma, School of Geosciences, Norman, OK, United States and Nori Nakata, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, United States
The Search for Fluid Injection-induced Seismicity in California Oilfields (263773)
Corinne Elisabeth Layland-Bachmann, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Emily E Brodsky, University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, William Foxall, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Berkeley, CA, United States, Thomas Goebel, University of California Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Science Department, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Preston D. Jordan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy Geosciences Division, Berkeley, United States
One Basin, One Stress Regime, One Orientation of Seismogenic Basement Faults, Variable Spatio-Temporal Slip Histories: Lessons from Fort Worth Basin Induced Earthquake Sequences (260051)
Heather DeShon1, Mike R Brudzinski2, Cliff Frohlich3,4, Chris Hayward5, SeongJu Jeong4, Matthew J Hornbach6, Maria Beatrice Magnani1, Paul Ogwari7, Louis Quinones4, Monique Maria Holt8, Brian William Stump5, Oner Sufri4 and Jacob I Walter9, (1)Southern Methodist University, Roy Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Dallas, TX, United States, (2)Miami University (OH), Department of Geology and Environmental Earth Science, Oxford, United States, (3)Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States, (4)Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, United States, (5)Southern Methodist University, Roy Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Dallas, United States, (6)US Naval Research Laboratory, Ocean Sciences Division, Stennis Space Center, United States, (7)Oklahoma Geological Survey, Norman, United States, (8)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (9)Oklahoma Geological Survey, Leonard, OK, United States

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