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Injection induced seismicty
June 25, 2015
Very interesting collection of papers in The Leading Edge regarding injection-induced seismicity. Fluid injection during petroleum production can cause crustal movement with significant seismic energy.
"Preliminary hazard models indicate that areas experiencing the highest rate of earthquakes in 2014 have a short-term (one-year) hazard comparable to or higher than the hazard in the source region of tectonic earthquakes in the New Madrid and Charleston seismic zones."
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tagged earthquake, production, seismic in Geophysics, seismic, tectonics