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Towards a Risk Governance Framework for Induced Seismicity
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, EAGE/DGG Workshop on Microseismic Monitoring, Mar 2014, Volume 2014, p.1 - 5
Abstract
Summary
It is a well established fact that man-made perturbations to the critically stressed crust, e.g. through reservoir stimulation, hydraulic fracking, mining, reservoir impoundment, injection of waste water, and CO2 storage leads to enhanced seismic activity. While the size of such induced seismic events is typically smaller than the largest observed natural events in the same location, they are governed by the same physics, and are often indistinguishable from natural events.
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