Statistical bounds on how induced seismicity stops.

ABSTRACT: Earthquakes caused by human activities receive scrutiny due to the risks and hazards they pose. Seismicity that occurs after the causative anthropogenic operation stops has been particularly problematic-both because of high-profile cases of damage caused by this trailing seismicity and due to the loss of control for risk management. With this motivation, we undertake a statistical examination of how induced seismicity stops. We borrow the concept of Båth's law from tectonic aftershock sequences. Båth's law anticipates the difference between magnitudes in two subsets of seismicity as dependent on their population count ratio. We test this concept for its applicability to induced seismicity, including ~ 80 cases of earthquakes caused by hydraulic fracturing, enhanced geothermal systems, and

SUBMITTER: Schultz R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8786864 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature