S023
Induced Seismicity in the United States and Canada

Session ID#: 77027

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.
Co-Organized:
  • H - Hydrology
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • T - Tectonophysics
Index Terms:

7215 Earthquake source observations [SEISMOLOGY]
7223 Earthquake interaction, forecasting, and prediction [SEISMOLOGY]
7230 Seismicity and tectonics [SEISMOLOGY]
8164 Stresses: crust and lithosphere [TECTONOPHYSICS]

Primary Convener:  Cornelius Langenbruch, Stanford University, Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States
Conveners:  Matthew Weingarten, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, United States, Ruijia Wang, University of Alberta, Physics, Edmonton, AB, Canada and Robert Skoumal, USGS, Earthquake Science Center, Menlo Park, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Cornelius Langenbruch, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
 
Lessons from Fort Worth Basin Induced Earthquake Sequences (Invited) (489558)
Heather DeShon, Louis Quinones, SeongJu Jeong and Brian William Stump, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, United States
 
Evaluation of the Aftershock Duration of Induced Earthquakes (489645)
Kayla Kroll1, Michael Brudzinski2 and Joshua A. White1, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)Miami University, Oxford, OH, United States
 
Fault orientations of multiple earthquake sequences induced by hydraulic fracturing in the Dawson-Septimus area, northeast British Columbia, Canada (492320)
Marco Pascal Roth1, Alessandro Verdecchia2, John Onwuemeka3, Rebecca M Harrington2 and Yajing Liu3, (1)Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Bochum, Germany, (2)Ruhr University Bochum, Institute of Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics, Bochum, Germany, (3)McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
 
Exploring the Evolution of Injection-Induced Seismicity in Northern Oklahoma Using a Large-N Seismic Array (497414)
Rebecca M Harrington1, Alexander Wickham-Piotrowski2, Elizabeth S Cochran3, Zachary E. Ross4 and Kilian B Kemna1, (1)Ruhr University Bochum, Institute of Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics, Bochum, Germany, (2)ENSEGID, Bordeaux, France, (3)Earthquake Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Spring-Slider and Finite Element Modeling of Microseismic Events and Fault Slip during Hydraulic Fracturing (497627)
Ali Kashefi1, Benjamin Grossman-Ponemon1, Adrian Lew1 and Eric M Dunham2, (1)Stanford University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States
 
Moment tensors of waste-water disposal induced seismicity in Southern Kansas. (498585)
Amandine Amemoutou1, Patricia Martínez-Garzón1, Grzegorz Kwiatek1, Justin L Rubinstein2 and Marco Bohnhoff1, (1)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (2)USGS, Menlo Park, CA, United States
 
Earthquake triggering in the crystalline basement from hydraulic fracturing: two examples from the Montney Basin, BC, Canada. (498981)
Alessandro Verdecchia1, Bei Wang2, Yajing Liu1, Rebecca M Harrington3, Marco Pascal Roth3, Andres Felipe Peña-Castro1 and John Onwuemeka1, (1)McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, (2)McGill University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada, (3)Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Bochum, Germany
 
Quantitative Relationship Between Injection Operations and Induced Seismicity in the Southern Montney Play, British Columbia, Canada (500310)
Honn Kao1, Ryan Visser1, Ramin Dokht1, Stuart Venables2, Alireza Babaie Mahani3, YaJing Liu4 and Fengzhou Tan5, (1)Geological Survey of Canada, Sidney, BC, Canada, (2)BC Oil and Gas Commission, Victoria, BC, Canada, (3)Geoscience BC, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (4)McGill University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada, (5)University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
 
High-resolution Fault Zone Structure of the 2011 Mw 5.7 Prague, Oklahoma Earthquake Sequence (500547)
Lipeng He1, Qimin Wu2 and Xiaowei Chen2, (1)Southern University of Science and Technology, Department of Ocean Science and Engineering, Shenzhen, China, (2)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Geosciences, Norman, OK, United States
 
Modeling Injection Induced Stress Changes in the Fort Worth Basin (503659)
Louis Andrew Quinones1, Heather DeShon1, Peter Hennings2, Elizabeth Horne3 and Rebecca Gao4, (1)Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, TX, United States, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, (4)University of Texas, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States
 
Spectral Characteristics of Ground Motion from Induced Earthquakes in the Fort Worth Basin, Texas Using the Generalized Inversion Technique (503704)
SeongJu Jeong, Brian William Stump and Heather DeShon, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, United States
 
Forecasts of Induced Seismicity and its Hazard from a Hydromechanical Earthquake Nucleation Model (507728)
Justin L Rubinstein, U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Science Center, Menlo Park, CA, United States, Jack Hunter Norbeck, United States Geological Survey, Earthquake Science Center, Menlo Park, CA, United States and Andrew J Barbour, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States
 
Seismogenic Structures in the Cogdell Oil Field, Texas (510917)
Dino Huang1, Alexandros Savvaidis1 and TexNet Operation Team, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, TX, United States
 
On the Use of Sentinel-1A/B InSAR Observations to Constrain Potential Geomechanical Mechanisms Linking Fluid Extraction and Injection to Deformation and Induced Seismicity in the Delaware Basin (512176)
Karissa Suzanne Pepin1, Howard A Zebker2 and William L Ellsworth1, (1)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA, United States
 
Imaging the source region of potentially induced earthquakes in the Eagle Ford region of Texas with ambient noise tomography and receiver functions. (512953)
Robert W Porritt1, Alexandros Savvaidis2, Bissett Young2, Matthew Shirley2 and Peng Li2, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, TX, United States
 
Stress chatter on a fault/fracture network reactivated by hydraulic fracturing (Invited) (516478)
Yajing Liu1, Marco Pascal Roth2, Andres Felipe Peña-Castro1, Alessandro Verdecchia1, John Onwuemeka1, Rebecca M Harrington2 and Honn Kao3, (1)McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, (2)Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Bochum, Germany, (3)Geological Survey of Canada, Pacific Geoscience Centre, Sidney, BC, Canada
 
Lateral Lithospheric Strength Variations: A Deeper Explanation for the Abundance of Induced Seismicity in Oklahoma (516650)
Maximiliano Bezada, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Earth Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Jonathan Perry-Houts, University of Oregon - 1299, Eugene, OR, United States, Gene Humphreys, University of Oregon, Department of Geological Sciences, Eugene, OR, United States and Matthew Weingarten, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, United States
 
Refined Principal Stress Estimates for Induced Seismicity in Southern Kansas Based on Seismological Tools and Laboratory Experiments (519277)
Laura Chiaramonte1, Kayla Kroll2, Elizabeth S Cochran3, Eric Matzel4, Christina Morency4, Robert Skoumal5, Devin McPhillips6, Jacob I. Walter7, Brett M Carpenter8, Ahmad Ghassemi9, Robert C Trautz10, Joshua A White2 and Richard Esposito11, (1)Electric Power Research Institute Palo Alto, Palo Alto, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (3)U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Science Center, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)LLNL, Livermore, CA, United States, (5)USGS, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (6)U.S. Geological Survey, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (8)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Geosciences, Norman, OK, United States, (9)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Mewbourne College of Petroleum and Geological Engineering, Norman, OK, United States, (10)Electric Power Research Institute Paolo Alto, Palo Alto, CA, United States, (11)Southern Company Alabama, Birmingham, AL, United States
 
Modeling of stress changes around hydraulic fractures to estimate effect on induced seismicity (520672)
Suvrat P Lele1, Timothy Tyrrell2 and Brian deMartin1, (1)ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Spring, TX, United States, (2)XTO Energy, Spring, TX, United States
 
Statistical Modelling and Characterization of Induced Seismicity Across the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (539223)
Sidhanth Kothari and Robert Shcherbakov, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
 
Shear Wave Splitting Analyses from Local Earthquakes in West Texas (539669)
Regan Robinson1, Aibing Li1, Hongru Hu1 and Alexandros Savvaidis2, (1)University of Houston, EAS, Houston, TX, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, TX, United States
 
Association of hydraulic stimulation with seismicity in Texas (553441)
Alexandros Savvaidis, University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, TX, United States, Anthony Lomax, ALomax Scientific, Mouans-Sartoux, France and Caroline L Breton, University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin`, TX, United States
 
Best Practices for Addressing Induced Seismicity Associated With Subsurface Injection (556864)
Dennise C Templeton, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States and Martin Schoenball, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States
 
Empirical and Synthetic Approaches to the Calibration of the Local Magnitude Scale, ML, in Southern Kansas (557557)
Fatimah Al-Ismail, William L Ellsworth and Gregory C Beroza, Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States
 
The Guy-Greenbrier seismic sequence revisited with deep learning (559746)
Yongsoo Park, S. Mostafa Mousavi, Weiqiang Zhu, William L Ellsworth and Gregory C Beroza, Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States
 
Is wastewater induced seismicity characterized by elevated Gutenberg-Richter b-values? (572679)
Iason Grigoratos1, Ellen Rathje2, Alexandros Savvaidis3, Paolo Bazzurro1 and Andreas M Schaefer4, (1)University School of Advanced Studies IUSS Pavia, Pavia, Italy, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Civil Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Austin, TX, United States, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, TX, United States, (4)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Geophysical Institute, Karlsruhe, Germany
 
Testing the effects of parameter variability on stresses and deformation within reservoirs: implications for induced seismicity. (581325)
David S. K. Muessle1, Tobias Baumann1 and Boris J P Kaus2, (1)Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Institute for Geosciences, Mainz, Germany, (2)University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
 
Hydraulic Fracture Injection Strategy Influences the Probability of Earthquakes in the Eagle Ford Shale Play of South Texas (587167)
Shannon Fasola1, Mike Brudzinski1, Robert Skoumal2, Teresa Langenkamp1, Brian Currie1 and Kevin J Smart3, (1)Miami University Oxford, Oxford, OH, United States, (2)USGS, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (3)SW Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
 
Does prior depletion affect the occurrence of earthquakes induced by hydraulic fracturing in the Delaware Basin of Texas and New Mexico? (591014)
Noam Zach Dvory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States and Mark D Zoback, Stanford Univ, Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States
 
High Resolution Earthquake Depth Determination Using Crustal Reverberations: Implications for Earthquake Triggering and Spatial Variations of Shear Wave Splitting (593584)
Angie Ortega Romo1, Xiaowei Chen1, Pranshu Ratre1 and Jacob I Walter2, (1)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Geosciences, Norman, OK, United States, (2)Oklahoma Geological Survey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States
 
Assessing and managing seismic hazards in Oklahoma associated with hydraulic fracturing (595721)
Cornelius Langenbruch and Mark D Zoback, Stanford University, Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States
 
Next-Generation Seismic Monitoring for High-Precision Delineation of Fault Geometry and Stress; West Texas Case Study (596105)
Adam Baig1, Sepideh Karimi1, Aaron Booterbaugh1, Yoones Vaezi1, Mark Stacey1 and Dario Baturan2, (1)Nanometrics Inc, Seismic Monitoring Services, Kanata, ON, Canada, (2)Nanometrics Inc, Kanata, ON, Canada
 
Slip tendency on cryptic faults in the Patterson Storage Site, a proposed CO2 repository in SW Kansas: Quantifying potential injection-induced seismicity hazards (598962)
Sean G Polun1, Tandis S. Bidgoli1 and Jeff Jennings2, (1)University of Missouri, Department of Geological Sciences, Columbia, MO, United States, (2)University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States
 
Event-event triggering in Oklahoma and southern Kansas (603981)
Kamran Karimi and Davidsen Joern, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
 
Ground motion analysis of hydraulic-fracture triggered earthquakes in Oklahoma (609287)
Paul Ogwari and Jacob I Walter, Oklahoma Geological Survey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States
 
Step-rate Test Calibration of Primary Injection Reservoir Permeability in a Case of Injection Induced Seismicity, Raton Basin, CO-NM (611354)
Robert Hernandez, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, United States and Matthew Weingarten, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Injection-induced surface deformation in central Kansas observed with Sentinel 1 interferometric SAR (InSAR): Tools for rapid and independent monitoring (615326)
Francisco G Gomez, Sean G Polun and Tandis S. Bidgoli, University of Missouri, Department of Geological Sciences, Columbia, MO, United States
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