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 …

Three Mw≥ 4.7 earthquakes within the Changning (China) shale gas field ruptured shallow faults intersecting with hydraulic fracturing wells

S Wang, G Jiang, X Lei, AJ Barbour… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
From 2017 to 2019, three destructive earthquakes (27 January 2017 Mw 4.7, 16 December
2018 Mw 5.2, and 3 January 2019 Mw 4.8) occurred in the Changning shale gas field in the …

Spatial‐temporal evolution of injection‐induced earthquakes in the Weiyuan Area determined by machine‐learning phase picker and waveform cross‐correlation

WCJ Wong, JP Zi, HF Yang… - Earth and Planetary …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic induced seismicity has been widely reported and investigated in many
regions, including the shale gas fields in the Sichuan basin, where the frequency of …

Retrieving the displacements of the Hutubi (China) underground gas storage during 2003–2020 from multi-track InSAR

Y Wang, G Feng, Z Li, W Xu, J Zhu, L He… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Many countries and regions build underground gas storages (UGSs) to regulate the energy
demand and supply in different seasons. The Hutubi underground gas storage (HUGS) in …

A new method of variational Bayesian slip distribution inversion

L Sun, L Wang, G Xu, Q Wu - Journal of Geodesy, 2023 - Springer
For slip distribution inversion with Bayesian theory, traditionally, the Markov Chain Monte
Carlo (MCMC) method is well applied to generate a posterior probability density function …

[PDF][PDF] Review of the Seismic Hazard and Risk Protocol for induced seismicity related to gas production from small gas fields in The Netherlands

I Grigoratos, R Schultz, J van Ginkel, T Gunatilake… - SodM report, 2023 - sodm.nl
This report has been compiled by researchers of the Swiss Seismological Service (SED) of
ETH Zurich as commissioned by the State Supervision of Mines (SodM), who are the …

The temporal evolution of induced seismicity sequences generated by low-pressure, long-term fluid injection

TJM Watkins, JP Verdon, G Rodríguez-Pradilla - Journal of Seismology, 2023 - Springer
Traffic light schemes (TLSs) are commonly used to mitigate induced seismicity caused by
subsurface fluid injection. Verdon and Bommer (J Seismol 25: 301–326,) investigated the …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of fault stability and seismic potential for Hutubi underground gas storage due to seasonal injection and extraction

C Liu, F Zhang, Q Wang, B Wang, Q Zhang, B Xu - Underground Space, 2023 - Elsevier
The Hutubi gas field was put into production in 1998 and then converted into an
underground gas storage (UGS) facility in 2013, and since then a cluster of earthquakes …

Activity characteristics of the 2019 two MS > 5.0 earthquake sequences in eastern Weiyuan (Sichuan) and body-wave velocity structure of the source region

S ZHANG, GY JIANG, CJ XU, XL LEI, JR SU… - Chinese Journal of …, 2024 - en.dzkx.org
Abstract Seismicity rates in Weiyuan (Sichuan Basin, China) and its adjacent regions have
increased significantly since 2015. In 2019, one MS 5.4 earthquake and one MS 5.2 …

[HTML][HTML] Semi-analytical assessment of dynamic sealing capacity of underground gas storage: A case of Songliao Basin, Northeastern China

C Wen, S Jia, X Fu, G Wu, B Wang, J Sun, H He… - Journal of Rock …, 2024 - Elsevier
The cyclic injection and production of fluids into and from underground gas storage (UGS)
may lead to caprock failure, such as capillary sealing failure, hydraulic fracturing, shear …