The physical mechanisms of induced earthquakes

MJA Moein, C Langenbruch, R Schultz… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Anthropogenic operations involving underground fluid extraction or injection can cause
unexpectedly large and even damaging earthquakes, despite operational and regulatory …

Disposal From In Situ Bitumen Recovery Induced the ML 5.6 Peace River Earthquake

R Schultz, JU Woo, K Pepin… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Earthquakes induced by human activities can impede the development of underground
resources. Significant induced events (M5) have caused both economic and human losses …

Role of deep fluid injection in induced seismicity in the Delaware Basin, west Texas and southeast New Mexico

KM Smye, J Ge, A Calle, A Morris… - Geochemistry …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Rates of seismicity in the Delaware Basin of Texas and New Mexico increased from 10
earthquakes per year of local magnitude (ML) 3.0 and above in 2017 to more than 185 in …

[HTML][HTML] Frictional and poromechanical properties of the Delaware Mountain Group: Insights into induced seismicity in the Delaware Basin

DC Bolton, R Affinito, K Smye, C Marone… - Earth and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Delaware Basin in West Texas and Southeast New Mexico has experienced a
proliferation in seismic activity since 2016. The seismic activity is primarily due to subsurface …

Fluid-driven aseismic fault slip with permeability enhancement and dilatancy

EM Dunham - Philosophical Transactions A, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Injection-induced seismicity and aseismic slip often involve the reactivation of long-dormant
faults, which may have extremely low permeability prior to slip. In contrast, most previous …

Subsurface deformation monitoring with InSAR and elastic inversion modeling in west Texas

HP Lee, S Staniewicz, J Chen, P Hennings… - Geoenergy Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Recent Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) observations depict
centimeter-level surface uplift/subsidence signals in west Texas that correlate spatially and …

Knowns, questions, and implications of induced seismicity in the Permian Basin

P Hennings, KM Smye - AAPG Bulletin, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Unconventional hydrocarbon development in the Permian Basin has required disposal of
approximately 45 billion bbl of coproduced wastewater since 2009. This injection has …