Induced Seismicity

• Natural and Induced Seismicity in the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles, Seismological Research Letters (September 2018)
• The surge of earthquakes in Central Oklahoma has features of reservoir-induced seismicity, Scientific Reports (July 2018)
• Induced seismicity response of hydraulic fracturing: results of a multidisciplinary monitoring at the Wysin site, Poland, Scientific Reports (June 2018)
• Global review of human-induced earthquakes, Earth Science Reviews, Vol. 178, Pages 438-514 (March 2018)
• Oklahoma’s induced seismicity strongly linked to wastewater injection depth, Science (February 1, 2018)
• A classification of induced seismicity, Geoscience Frontiers (December 18, 2017)
• Discriminating between natural versus induced seismicity from long-term deformation history of intraplate faults, Science Advances, Vol. 3, no. 11 (November 24, 2017)
• Understanding induced seismicity, Derek Elsworth et al., Science (December 16, 2016)
• Induced earthquake magnitudes are as large as (statistically) expected, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 121 (6), 4575-4590 (2016)
• Discrete element modeling of fluid injection-induced seismicity and activation of nearby fault, J. S. Yoon et al., NRC Research Press, 2015
• A Century of Induced Earthquakes in Oklahoma?, Susan E. Hough and Morgan Page, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol. 105, No. 6, 2015
• High-rate injection is associated with the increase in U.S. mid-continent seismicity, M. Weingarten et al, Science Mag, 2015
• A century of oil-field operations and earthquakes in the greater Los Angeles Basin, southern California, E. Hauksson et al, The Leading Edge, 2015
• Distinguishing induced seismicity from natural seismicity in Ohio: Demonstrating the utility of waveform template matching, R. J. Skoumal, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2015
• Earthquakes Induced by Hydraulic Fracturing in Poland Township, Ohio, R. J. Skoumal et al, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol. 105, No. 1, 2015
• Causal factors for seismicity near Azle, Texas, M. J. Hornbach et al, Nature Communications, 2015
• Myths and Facts on Wastewater Injection, Hydraulic Fracturing, Enhanced Oil Recovery, and Induced Seismicity, J. L. Rubinstein and A. B. Mahani, Seismological Research Letters, 2015
• Efforts to monitor and characterize the recent increasing seismicity in central Oklahoma, D.E. McNamara et al, The Leading Edge, 2015
• Oklahoma’s recent earthquakes and saltwater disposal, F. Rall Walsh III and Mark D. Zoback, Journal Science Advances, 2015
• Increased seismicity in Kansas,  R. C. Buchanan, The Leading Edge, 2015
• Characterization of an earthquake sequence triggered by hydraulic fracturing in Harrison County, Ohio, P. A. Friberg et al, Seismological Research Letters, 2014
• The 2001-present induced earthquake sequence in the Raton Basin of Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado, J.L. Rubinstein et al, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 2014
• Induced Seismicity: The Potential for Triggered Earthquakes in Kansas, R. C. Buchanan, Kansas Geological Survey, 2014
• Unintentional Seismicity Induced by Hydraulic Fracturing, Shawn Maxwell, CSEG Recorder (Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists), 2013
• Induced seismicity associated with fluid injection into a deep well in Youngstown, Ohio, W.Y. Kim, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2013
• Modeling earthquake rate changes in Oklahoma and Arkansas: possible signatures of induced seismicity, A. L. Llenos and A. J. Michael, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 2013
• Disposal of Hydrofracking Waste Fluid by Injection into Subsurface Aquifers Triggers Earthquake Swarm in Central Arkansas with Potential for Damaging Earthquake, S. Horton, Seismological Research Letters, 2012
• Two-year survey of earthquakes and injection/production wells in the Eagle Ford Shale, Texas, prior to the Mw4.8 20 October 2011, C. Frohlich and M. Brunt, University of Texas, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2012
• Recommendations for Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis: Guidance on Uncertainty and Use of Experts, R. J. Budnitz et al, U.S. NRC, NUREG/CR-6372, Vol. 2, 1997

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