The Mechanism of Induced Seismicity (Pageoph Topical Volumes)

Front Matter....Pages i-vii Introduction....Pages 1-5 Seasonal Seismicity of Northern California Before the Great 1906 Earthquake....Pages 7-62 Post-seismic Effects of an M 7.2 Earthquake and Microseismicity in an Abandoned, Flooded, Deep Mine....Pages 63-90 Microseismicity Induced by Heavy Rainfall Around Flooded Vertical Ore Veins....Pages 91-109 Moment Tensor Inversion of Regional Phases: Application to a Mine Collapse....Pages 111-130 Source Time Function of Seismic Events at Rudna Copper Mine, Poland....Pages 131-144 Reliability of Seismic Moment Tensor Inversions for Induced Microseismicity at Kidd Mine, Ontario....Pages 145-164 Effect of the Rock Properties on Mining-induced Seismicity Around the Ventersdorp Contact Reef, Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa....Pages 165-177 The Assessment of Damage Around Critical Engineering Structures Using Induced Seismicity and Ultrasonic Techniques....Pages 179-195 High-resolution Mechanics of a Microearthquake Sequence....Pages 197-219 Simulation of Unstable Fault Slip in Granite Using a Bonded-particle Model....Pages 221-245 Modelling Seismic Waves Around Underground Openings in Fractured Rock....Pages 247-276 Tomographic Imaging of Thermally Induced Fractures in Granite Using Bayesian Inversion....Pages 277-307 A Simple Analogue Experiment to Account for Power-law and Exponential Decays of Earthquake Sequences....Pages 309-343 Induced Microearthquake Patterns in Hydrocarbon and Geothermal Reservoirs: Six Case Studies....Pages 345-369 Seismological Studies of a Fluid Injection in Sedimentary Rocks, East Texas....Pages 371-401 Production-induced Normal Faulting in the Valhall and Ekofisk Oil Fields....Pages 403-420 An Application of Induced Seismicity Data Analysis for Detection of Spatial Structures and Temporal Regimes of Deformation Processes in Hydrocarbon Fields....Pages 421-447 Application of Kalman Filtering Techniques for Microseismic Event Detection....Pages 449-471 Near-surface Microearthquakes at the Geysers Geothermal Field, California....Pages 473-487 Determination of Stress State from Focal Mechanisms of Microseismic Events Induced During Hydraulic Injection at the Hijiori Hot Dry Rock Site....Pages 489-516 Detailed Fracture System of the Soultz-sous-Forêts HDR Field Evaluated Using Microseismic Multiplet Analysis....Pages 517-541 Evaluation of Subsurface Structure at Soultz Hot Dry Rock Site by the AE Reflection Method in Time-frequency Domain....Pages 543-561 Using Automated, High-precision Repicking to Improve Delineation of Microseismic Structures at the Soultz Geothermal Reservoir....Pages 563-596 Reservoir-induced Seismicity in Brazil....Pages 597-617 This volume covers a wide range of studies, from mining induced seismicity to geotechnical applications, from the monitoring of petroleum resevoirs to that of fluid injections in geothermal areas, and to seismicity associated with water reservoirs.