Growing seismicity in the Sichuan Basin and its association with industrial activities

X Lei, J Su, Z Wang - Science China Earth Sciences, 2020 - Springer
Abstract In the Sichuan Basin, seismic activity has been low historically, but in the past few
decades, a series of moderate to strong earthquakes have occurred. Especially since 2015 …

ISRM suggested method for in situ microseismic monitoring of the fracturing process in rock masses

YX **ao, XT Feng, JA Hudson, BR Chen… - Rock Mechanics and …, 2016 - Springer
The purpose of this ISRM Suggested Method is to describe a methodology for in situ
microseismic monitoring of the rock mass fracturing processes occurring as a result of …

Active seismotectonics of the East Anatolian fault

SE Güvercin, H Karabulut, AÖ Konca… - Geophysical Journal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
SUMMARY The East Anatolian Fault (EAF) is a 700-km-long left-lateral transform fault
located between the Anatolian and Arabian plates. The proximity of the Euler Pole to the …

The December 2018 ML 5.7 and January 2019 ML 5.3 earthquakes in South Sichuan basin induced by shale gas hydraulic fracturing

X Lei, Z Wang, J Su - Seismological Research Letters, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
An ML 5.7 earthquake struck **ngwen County, Sichuan Province, China (28.239 N, 104.922
E) on 16 December 2018. More than two weeks later on 3 January 2019, an ML 5.3 …

Fault reactivation and earthquakes with magnitudes of up to Mw4. 7 induced by shale-gas hydraulic fracturing in Sichuan Basin, China

X Lei, D Huang, J Su, G Jiang, X Wang, H Wang… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
This paper presents a timely and detailed study of significant injection-induced seismicity
recently observed in the Sichuan Basin, China, where shale-gas hydraulic fracturing has …

Moment tensor decompositions revisited

V Vavryčuk - Journal of Seismology, 2015 - Springer
The decomposition of moment tensors into isotropic (ISO), double-couple (DC) and
compensated linear vector dipole (CLVD) components is a tool for classifying and physically …

Possible link between long‐term and short‐term water injections and earthquakes in salt mine and shale gas site in Changning, south Sichuan Basin, China

XL Lei, ZW Wang, JR Su - Earth and Planetary Physics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Late at night on 17 June 2019, a magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck Shuanghe Town and its
surrounding area in Changning County, Sichuan, China, becoming the largest earthquake …

The 2021 Ms 6.0 Luxian (China) earthquake: Blind reverse‐fault rupture in deep sedimentary formations likely induced by pressure perturbation from hydraulic …

Y Zhao, G Jiang, X Lei, C Xu, B Zhao… - Geophysical Research …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
To resolve the occurrence mechanism of the Luxian earthquake occurred near an active
hydraulic fracturing well pad on 15 September 2021, we first use seismic waveforms to invert …

A Shallow Shock: The 25 February 2019  4.9 Earthquake in the Weiyuan Shale Gas Field in Sichuan, China

H Yang, P Zhou, N Fang, G Zhu… - Seismological …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Earthquakes rarely occur at extremely shallow depths, for example, less than 2 km. Even for
induced earthquakes that are typically shallower than tectonic events, only very small ones …