S23A:
Induced Seismicity in the United States and Canada Posters


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Session ID#: 49855

Session Description:
The increased awareness of man-made earthquakes in the United States and Canada has generated an intensive 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 in the United States and Canada. Process-based modeling of induced seismicity at multiple scales and differences or similarities of induced and natural earthquakes contribute to understanding and mitigation of induced seismicity. This session features case studies, geomechanics, numerical modelling, laboratory experiments, ground motion prediction, statistical and quantitative methods and seismic hazard assessment and mitigation strategies related to induced and triggered earthquakes in the United States and Canada.
Primary Convener:  Cornelius Langenbruch, Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, United States
Conveners:  Carsten Dinske, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Ruijia Wang, University of New Mexico Main Campus, Physics, Albuquerque, United States and Matthew Weingarten, Stanford University, School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Cornelius Langenbruch, Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, United States
Chairs:  Cornelius Langenbruch1, Carsten Dinske1, Ruijia Wang2 and Matthew Weingarten3, (1)Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany(2)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Physics, Albuquerque, United States(3)Stanford University, School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Carsten Dinske, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Co-Organized with:
Seismology, Hydrology, Nonlinear Geophysics, and Tectonophysics

Cross-Listed:
  • H - Hydrology
  • NG - Nonlinear Geophysics
  • T - Tectonophysics

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • H - Hydrology
  • NG - Nonlinear Geophysics
  • T - Tectonophysics
Index Terms:

4475 Scaling: spatial and temporal [NONLINEAR GEOPHYSICS]
7215 Earthquake source observations [SEISMOLOGY]
7223 Earthquake interaction, forecasting, and prediction [SEISMOLOGY]
8164 Stresses: crust and lithosphere [TECTONOPHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Aftershock density decay in space and time: Observations for Oklahoma and implications (439560)
Zachary Davis Rosson1,2, Jacob I Walter3, Thomas Goebel4 and Xiaowei Chen2, (1)Oklahoma Geological Survey, Norman, OK, United States, (2)The University of Oklahoma, School of Geology and Geophysics, Norman, OK, United States, (3)University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Geological Survey, Norman, United States, (4)University of California Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Science Department, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Tracking Thousands of Microearthquakes for a Month in Northern Oklahoma: What a Large-N Array Can Reveal About Induced Seismicity (397479)
Sara L Dougherty, USGS Pasadena Field Office, Pasadena, CA, United States, Elizabeth S Cochran, U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Science Center, Pasadena, United States, Rebecca M Harrington, Ruhr University Bochum, Institute of Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics, Bochum, Germany and Zachary E. Ross, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Constraining Geological Structures and Temporal Variations in Fluid Accumulation near Hydraulic Fracturing Injection Sites in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (372861)
Marco Pascal Roth1, Rebecca M Harrington1 and YaJing Liu2, (1)Ruhr University Bochum, Institute of Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics, Bochum, Germany, (2)McGill University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada
Interplay between pore pressure and poroelastic stress induces US midcontinent seismicity (443167)
Esmail Ansari1, Tandis S. Bidgoli2, Andrew Hollenbach1,3 and Keith Nolte3,4, (1)University of Kansas, Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, KS, United States, (2)University of Missouri, Department of Geological Sciences, Columbia, MO, United States, (3)University of Kansas, Department of Geology, Lawrence, KS, United States, (4)The University of Kansas, Department of Geology, Lawrence, KS, United States
Hydraulic Fracturing Operations for Oil and Gas production: Increasing Earthquake activities and Methane Emissions across the United States (371217)
Valeria Villa, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States and Ramesh P Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, School of Engineering, Mandi, India
Low Seismicity in the Midland Basin and Implications for Induced Earthquakes (439098)
Aibing Li, University of Houston, EAS, Houston, TX, United States, Hongli Jing, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States and Hua-Wei Zhou, University of Houston, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, United States
An Investigation of Seismicity Induced by Hydraulic Fracturing in the Sichuan Basin of China based on Data from a Temporary Seismic Network (364194)
Lingyuan Meng1,2, Arthur McGarr2, Longquan Zhou1 and Yang Zang1, (1)China Earthquake Networks Center, Beijing, China, (2)USGS, Menlo Park, CA, United States
Automated shear-wave analysis of earthquakes in Sumner county, south-central Kansas reveals temporal anisotropy changes (392550)
Keith Nolte, The University of Kansas, Department of Geology, Lawrence, KS, United States, Georgios P Tsoflias, University of Kansas, Department of Geology, Lawrence, United States and W. Lynn Watney, Kansas Geological Survey, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States
Developing a regional 3-D velocity model in southwest Texas for monitoring seismicity in the Eagle Ford Shale Play (443766)
Dino Huang1, Alexandros Savvaidis1, Bissett Young1 and the TexNet data analyst team, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, TX, United States
High Resolution Seismogenic Fault Imaging using Double Difference Relocation in Azle-Reno, TX (443600)
Oner Sufri1, Paul Ogwari2, Louis Quinones1 and Heather DeShon3, (1)Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, United States, (2)Oklahoma Geological Survey, Norman, United States, (3)Southern Methodist University, Roy Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Dallas, TX, United States
A Quantitative Analysis of Hydraulic Fracturing Induced Seismicity in Oklahoma (418989)
Sarah Sundberg1, Xiaowei Chen2, Jacob I Walter3 and Yan Qin1, (1)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (2)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Geosciences, Norman, OK, United States, (3)University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Geological Survey, Norman, United States
Onset Time of Possibly-Induced Seismicity in the Delaware Basin, West Texas (409760)
Julia Rosenblit, Portland State University, Department of Geology, Portland, OR, United States, Cliff Frohlich, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States, Chris Hayward, Southern Methodist University, Roy Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Dallas, United States and Heather DeShon, Southern Methodist University, Roy Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Dallas, TX, United States
Persistent induced seismicity years after reduced injection rates (437828)
Matthew Weingarten, Department of Geological Sciences, San Diego State University, San Diego, United States
Preliminary Investigation of Induced Seismicity Potential in the Cook Inlet Basin, Alaska. (462815)
Stephen G Holtkamp, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Earthquake Center, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Source Analysis of Induced Earthquakes in the Duvernay Play Near Fox Creek, Alberta, Using Empirical Green’s Functions (399791)
Megan Zecevic, University of Calgary, Geoscience, Calgary, Canada and David W S Eaton, University of Calgary, Department of Earth, Energy, and Environment, Calgary, AB, Canada
Spatial and temporal evolution of seismicity, seismic velocity, and pore pressure in the Guy-Greenbrier, Arkansas, earthquake sequence (419109)
Zhuo Yang1, Jiuxun Yin1 and Marine Denolle2, (1)Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States
Spatio-temporal Characterization of the Reno-Azle Earthquakes, 2013 to present, Derived via Template Matching (420069)
Paul Ogwari, Oklahoma Geological Survey, Norman, United States, Oner Sufri, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, United States and Heather DeShon, Southern Methodist University, Roy Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Dallas, TX, United States
Stochastic simulation of hydraulic fracturing induced seismicity: case studies in Alberta, Canada (434651)
Ruijia Wang1,2, Robert Shcherbakov3, Gail Marie Atkinson4 and Karen Assatourians4, (1)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Physics, Albuquerque, United States, (2)University of Western Ontario, Earth Sciences, London, ON, Canada, (3)University of Western Ontario, Department of Earth Sciences, London, ON, Canada, (4)University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
The Performance of the USGS’s 2017 One-Year Seismic Hazard Forecast for the Central and Eastern United States (398873)
Edward Max Brooks, Northwestern University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Evanston, IL, United States, Seth Stein, Northwestern University, Earth & Planetary Sciences and Institute for Policy Research, Evanston, IL, United States, Bruce D. Spencer, Northwestern University, Department of Statistics & Data Science and Institute for Policy Research, Evanston, United States, Mark David Petersen, USGS, Interior, Denver, CO, United States, Daniel E McNamara, USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, CO, United States, Leah Salditch, Northwestern University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Evanston, United States and James Scott Neely, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States

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