Developments in understanding seismicity triggered by hydraulic fracturing

GM Atkinson, DW Eaton, N Igonin - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
As recently as 2015, it was common in the scientific literature to find assertions that the risk
of triggering a damaging earthquake by hydraulic fracturing (HF)—an industrial process …

The physical mechanisms of induced earthquakes

MJA Moein, C Langenbruch, R Schultz… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Anthropogenic operations involving underground fluid extraction or injection can cause
unexpectedly large and even damaging earthquakes, despite operational and regulatory …

High-performance perovskite/Cu(In,Ga)Se2 monolithic tandem solar cells

Q Han, YT Hsieh, L Meng, JL Wu, P Sun, EP Yao… - Science, 2018 - science.org
The combination of hybrid perovskite and Cu (In, Ga) Se2 (CIGS) has the potential for
realizing high-efficiency thin-film tandem solar cells because of the complementary tunable …

Fiber‐optic network observations of earthquake wavefields

NJ Lindsey, ER Martin, DS Dreger… - Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Our understanding of subsurface processes suffers from a profound observation bias:
seismometers are sparse and clustered on continents. A new seismic recording approach …

The spatial footprint of injection wells in a global compilation of induced earthquake sequences

THW Goebel, EE Brodsky - Science, 2018 - science.org
Fluid injection can cause extensive earthquake activity, sometimes at unexpectedly large
distances. Appropriately mitigating associated seismic hazards requires a better …

Oklahoma's induced seismicity strongly linked to wastewater injection depth

T Hincks, W Aspinall, R Cooke, T Gernon - Science, 2018 - science.org
The sharp rise in Oklahoma seismicity since 2009 is due to wastewater injection. The role of
injection depth is an open, complex issue, yet critical for hazard assessment and regulation …

Paradigm shifts and current challenges in wastewater management

MC Villarín, S Merel - Journal of hazardous materials, 2020 - Elsevier
Wastewater is a significant environmental and public health concern which management is
a constant challenge since antiquity. Wastewater research has increased exponentially over …

Induced seismicity during geoenergy development—A hydromechanical perspective

S Ge, MO Saar - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The basic triggering mechanism underlying induced seismicity traces back to the mid‐1960s
that relied on the process of pore‐fluid pressure diffusion. The last decade has experienced …

2017 one‐year seismic‐hazard forecast for the central and eastern United States from induced and natural earthquakes

MD Petersen, CS Mueller… - Seismological …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We produce a one‐year 2017 seismic‐hazard forecast for the central and eastern United
States from induced and natural earthquakes that updates the 2016 one‐year forecast; this …

Pore-pressure diffusion, enhanced by poroelastic stresses, controls induced seismicity in Oklahoma

G Zhai, M Shirzaei, M Manga… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Induced seismicity linked to geothermal resource exploitation, hydraulic fracturing, and
wastewater disposal is evolving into a global issue because of the increasing energy …