Microseismic focal mechanisms and implications for changes in stress during the 2014 Newberry EGS stimulation

AC Aguiar, SC Myers - Bulletin of the Seismological …, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We adapt the relative polarity method from Shelly et al.(2016) to compute focal mechanisms
for microearthquakes associated with the 2014 hydroshearing stimulation at the Newberry …

A new strategy for earthquake focal mechanisms using waveform‐correlation‐derived relative polarities and cluster analysis: Application to the 2014 Long Valley …

DR Shelly, JL Hardebeck… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In microseismicity analyses, reliable focal mechanisms can typically be obtained for only a
small subset of located events. We address this limitation here, presenting a framework for …

Microseismic event relocation based on PageRank linkage at the Newberry volcano geothermal site

AC Aguiar, SC Myers - Bulletin of the Seismological …, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We adapt the PageRank method to define signal‐correlation topology for microearthquakes
at the Newberry Volcano enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) demonstration in central …

Using machine learning techniques with incomplete polarity datasets to improve earthquake focal mechanism determination

RJ Skoumal, DR Shelly… - … Society of America, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Earthquake focal mechanisms are traditionally produced using P‐wave first‐motion
polarities and commonly require well‐recorded seismicity. A recent approach that is less …

A regularized approach for estimation of a composite focal mechanism from a set of microearthquakes

H Zhang, DW Eaton - Geophysics, 2018 - library.seg.org
We have developed a novel regularized approach to estimate a composite focal mechanism
for microseismic events that share a similar source mechanism. The method operates by …

Refined earthquake focal mechanism catalog for southern California derived with deep learning algorithms

Y Cheng, E Hauksson… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Earthquake focal mechanisms, determined with P‐wave polarities and S/P amplitude ratios,
are primary data for analyzing fault zone geometry, sense of slip, and the crustal stress field …

Using corrected and imputed polarity measurements to improve focal mechanisms in a regional earthquake catalog near the Mt. Lewis fault zone, California

RJ Skoumal, JL Hardebeck… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We utilized relative polarity measurements and machine learning techniques to better
resolve focal mechanisms and stress orientations considering a catalog of∼ 29,000 …

[PDF][PDF] Seismic monitoring of EGS stimulation tests at the Coso geothermal field, California, using microearthquake locations and moment tensors

BR Julian, GR Foulger, FC Monastero - Thirty-Fourth Workshop on …, 2009 - es.stanford.edu
We calculated high-resolution relative locations and full moment tensors for
microearthquakes that occurred before, during, and following EGS stimulation experiments …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying geological structures through microseismic cluster and burst analyses complementing active seismic interpretation

AM Dichiarante, N Langet, RA Bauer… - Tectonophysics, 2021 - Elsevier
At the Decatur carbon capture and storage site (IL, USA) CO 2 has been injected from 2011–
2014 and from 2017 to present near the base of the Lower Mt. Simon Sandstone saline …

Characterizing the potential for injection‐induced fault reactivation through subsurface structural mapping and stress field analysis, Wellington Field, Sumner County …

DR Schwab, TS Bidgoli… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Kansas, like other parts of the central US, has experienced a recent increase in seismicity.
Correlation of these events with brine disposal operations suggests pore fluid pressure …