Published in Frontiers in Energy Research
There is a renewed interest in carbon capture, utilization, and storage technology due to recently expanded US Internal Revenue Service 45Q credits as well as to reduce anthropogenic carbon emissions to the atmosphere. Deep carbonate reservoirs in western Kansas have the potential for CO2 storage because they have experienced low waste-fluid inject...
Published in Frontiers in Earth Science
Induced seismicity has become a concern for industry and nearby residents. Fluid-induced earthquakes are a side effect of industrial operations such as hydraulic fracturing, where high-pressure fluids are pumped into the Earth’s crust to increase hydrocarbon flow to a well from petroleum-bearing rock formations. Previous studies on fluid-induced se...
Automatic detection of low-magnitude earthquakes has become an increasingly important research topic in recent years due to a sharp increase in induced seismicity around the globe. The detection of low-magnitude seismic events is essential for microseismic monitoring of hydraulic fracturing, carbon capture and storage, and geothermal operations for...
Published in Frontiers in Earth Science
In this paper we describe the results of an experimental implementation of the recent guidelines issued by the Italian regulatory body for monitoring hydrocarbon production activities. In particular, we report about the pilot study on seismic, deformation, and pore pressure monitoring of the Mirandola hydrocarbon cultivation facility in Northern It...
Published in Journal of Volcanology and Seismology
A man-induced seismic activation occurring near the Bachat open-cast coal mine in Kuzbass is studied. The Bachat earthquake of June 18, 2013 (ML = 6.1) is the world’s largest man-made earthquake related to the extraction of solid minerals. It created a powerful aftershock process. More than 3000 earthquakes have been recorded. It was found that the...
Published in Izvestiya, Physics of the Solid Earth
Abstract—Numerical modeling of induced seismicity resulting from fluid injection into the subsurface is considered. One of important factors determining the slip dynamics of a tectonic fault during fluid injection loading is the form of the law of friction acting on the fault sides. The numerical analysis in the context of a slider model compared t...
Published in Journal of Mining Science
AbstractThe implemented research aimed to assess the impact of open pit coal mining in Gorlovka deposit on the seismicity in the Iskitim area of the Novosibirsk Region. The seismic vibrations induced by large-scale blasting are analyzed, the seismic event potential is estimated, and the strain accumulation at a high-stress fault under seismic load ...
Published in Frontiers in Earth Science
Rupture directivity, implying a predominant earthquake rupture propagation direction, is typically inferred upon the identification of 2D azimuthal patterns of seismic observations for weak to large earthquakes using surface-monitoring networks. However, the recent increase of 3D monitoring networks deployed in the shallow subsurface and undergroun...
Published in Frontiers in Earth Science
We investigate the physical mechanisms governing the activation of faults during hydraulic fracturing. Recent studies have debated the varying importance of different fault reactivation mechanisms in different settings. Pore pressure increase caused by injection is generally considered to be the primary driver of induced seismicity. However, in ver...
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Industrial activity away from plate boundaries can induce earthquakes and has evolved into a global issue. Much of the induced seismicity in the United States' midcontinent is attributed to a direct pressure increase from deep wastewater disposal. This mechanism is not applicable where deep basement faults are hydraulically isolated from shallow in...
