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Paper on Acoustic Emission activity during hydraulic fracturing experiment in Äspö, Sweden

We published a new paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth related to the hydraulic fracture experiments performed in 2015 in  Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory, Sweden. Here are the highlights:

  • We analyze source characteristics of picoseismicity (moment magnitudes smaller than -3.5!) related to hydraulic stimulations in Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory, Sweden.
  • We show that spatio-temporal seismicity migration is controlled by changes in hydraulic (pressure times volume) energy.
  • We present that total radiated seismic energy is very low with respect to injected volume, and increases with hydraulic energy rate.

The reference:

Kwiatek, G., Martínez-Garzón, P., Plenkers, K., Leonhardt, M., Zang, A., Specht, S., et al. (2018). Insights Into Complex Subdecimeter Fracturing Processes Occurring During a Water Injection Experiment at Depth in Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory, Sweden. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, DOI: 10.1029/2017JB014715. [ Article Page ]

Paper in Geology on fault roughness

Together with Thomas Goebel and other co-authors we published a paper in Geology on fault roughness in laboratory stick-slip experiments on rock samples.

Reference:

Goebel, T.H.W., Kwiatek, G., Becker, T.W., Brodsky, E.E. and G. Dresen (2017). What allows seismic events to grow big?: Insights from b-value and fault roughness analysis in laboratory stick-slip experiments. Geology 45 (9): 815-818, DOI: 10.1130/G39147.1 [ Article Page ]

A paper on spatial distribution of b-value in North Anatolian Fault Zone

The paper on spatial variations of seismic Gutenberg-Richter b-value along the North Anatolian Fault Zone have been recently published in the Tectonophysics.

Reference:

Raub, C., Martínez-Garzón, P., Kwiatek, G., Bohnhoff, M., and G. Dresen (2017). Variations of seismic b-value at different stages of the seismic cycle along the North Anatolian Fault Zone in northwestern Turkey. Tectonophysics 712-713, 232-248, DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2017.05.028. [ Article Page ]

Two new papers on Induced Seismicity

We just published two new papers related to analysis of induced seismicity. First paper discusses the effects of long-term fluid injection on induced seismicity parameters and maximum likely magnitude at The Geysers geothermal field. In the second paper we perform the statistical analysis of couple of induced seismicity datasets and discuss the violations of Gutenberg-Richter relation in anthropocentric seismicity.

References:

  • Urban, P., S. Lasocki, P. Blascheck, A. F. do Nascimento, N. Van Giang, and G. Kwiatek (2015). Violations of Gutenberg–Richter Relation in Anthropogenic Seismicity, Pure Appl. Geophys. 1–21, DOI: 10.1007/s00024-015-1188-5. [ Article page ]
  • Kwiatek, G., P. Martínez-Garzón, G. Dresen, M. Bohnhoff, H. Sone, and C. Hartline (2015). Effects of long-term fluid injection on induced seismicity parameters and maximum magnitude in northwestern part of The Geysers geothermal field, J. Geophys. Res. 120, (submitted), DOI: 10.1002/2015JB012362. [ Article Page ]