• storage locations. The seismic hazard from induced seismicity can be assessed using similar techniques as for natural seismicity, although accounting for...
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    Earthquake (redirect from Seismic activity)
    increase, by fluid injection in Earth's crust, may induce seismicity. Tides may trigger some seismicity. Most earthquakes form part of a sequence, related...
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    Seismicity in mines is common as removing mass amounts of rock can change stress dynamics, especially if pre-existing faults exist. This seismicity is...
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    than in those built under more recent legislation. Fracking causes induced seismicity called microseismic events or microearthquakes. The magnitude of these...
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  • resources in Canada, induced seismicity caused by anthropological activities has been observed, documented, and studied. Induced events are generally...
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    2024. Induced seismicity is earth tremors caused by human activity. Seismicity is common in EGS, because of the high pressures involved. Seismicity events...
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  • movement of magma, the venting of volcanic gases from magma, or both. Induced seismicity, typically minor earthquakes and tremors that are caused by human...
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    Survey (USGS) began developing a new seismic hazard model to account for risk associated with induced seismicity. By June 26, 2014, no fewer than six...
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  • Induced seismicity in Basel led to suspension of its hot dry rock enhanced geothermal systems project. A seismic-hazard evaluation was then conducted,...
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    A seismic wave is a mechanical wave of acoustic energy that travels through the Earth or another planetary body. It can result from an earthquake (or...
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    P wave (redirect from P-wave (seismic))
    main types of elastic body waves, called seismic waves in seismology. P waves travel faster than other seismic waves and hence are the first signal from...
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    gas recovery does not pose a high risk for inducing felt seismic events. Kim, Won-Young 'Induced seismicity associated with fluid injection into a deep...
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    Seismology (redirect from Seismic)
    studying earthquake history (e.g. historical and instrumental catalogs of seismicity) and tectonics to assess the earthquakes that could occur in a region...
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  • Earthquake prediction (category Earthquake and seismic risk mitigation)
    level of seismic progress. Typical applications are: great global earthquakes and tsunamis, aftershocks and induced seismicity, induced seismicity at gas...
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  • The Human-Induced Earthquake Database (HiQuake) is an online database that documents all reported cases of induced seismicity proposed on scientific grounds...
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  • Southern California Seismic Network uses this "magnitude" where the data fail the quality criteria. A special case is the Seismicity of the Earth catalog...
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    California?". "EGS: The Geysers: What is the history of seismicity at The Geysers?". Induced seismicity. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth Sciences...
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    incidence of induced seismicity in the area. The referenced study by Talwani [2] actually states that after an initial increase, levels of seismicity at Monticello...
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  • linked to dike induced stress and the interaction this causes between the magma, rock, and wall of the chamber. Volcano tectonic seismicity is an important...
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    S wave (redirect from Seismic Wave Guide)
    derivative with respect to time. Combining the last two equations one gets the seismic wave equation in homogeneous media ρ ∂ t 2 u i = λ ∂ i ∑ k ∂ k u k + μ...
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  • 1811–1812. An aftershock sequence is deemed to have ended when the rate of seismicity drops back to a background level; i.e., no further decay in the number...
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  • Johnston, Arch C.; Halchuk, Stephen (June–July 1993), "The seismicity data base for the Global Seismic Hazard Assessment Program", Annali di Geofisica, 36 (3–4):...
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  • directions. Induced seismicity associated with fluid pumping in boreholes and wells often exhibits the Kaiser effect, whereby seismicity may be observed...
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    189.5055. doi:10.1785/0120020055. Yang, Xiaotao (2014). "Seismicity of the Ste. Genevieve Seismic Zone based on Observations from the EarthScope OIINK Flexible...
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    A seismic shadow zone is an area of the Earth's surface where seismographs cannot detect direct P waves and/or S waves from an earthquake. This is due...
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    the reservoir may have caused induced seismicity when being impounded. "History of Nurek Dams". Canadian Induced Seismicity Research Group. Retrieved 10...
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    The enormous mass of water is believed to have caused induced seismicity in the seismically active region, including over 20 earthquakes of greater...
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  • Moment magnitude scale (category Articles using seismic moment M0)
    data in lower magnitude range (≤ 7.0) which rarely represents the global seismicity (e.g., see Figs. 1A, B, 4 and Table 2 of Percaru and Berckhemer 1978)...
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  • Modified Mercalli intensity scale (category Seismic intensity scales)
    Mercalli scale of 1956" (MM56). In their 1993 compendium of historical seismicity in the United States, Carl Stover and Jerry Coffman ignored Richter's...
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    A.; Anderson, John G. (2015). Incorporating Induced Seismicity in the 2014 United States National Seismic Hazard Model—Results of 2014 Workshop and Sensitivity...
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