2016
DOI: 10.1111/gfl.12184
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Injection‐induced seismicity in Carbon and Emery Counties, central Utah

Abstract: Utah is one of the top producers of oil and natural gas in the United States. Over the past 18 years, more than 4.2 billion gallons of wastewater from the petroleum industry has been injected into the Navajo Sandstone, Kayenta Formation, and Wingate Sandstone in Carbon and Emery Counties, central Utah, where seismicity has increased during the same period. Previous studies have attributed this seismicity to coal mining. Here, we present evidence for wastewater injection being a major cause of the increased sei… Show more

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“…We use three b-values low, average, and high (0.8, 1.0, and 1.2, respectively) and keep a consistent at a = 3. A range of b-values has been calculated for induced seismicity from low (<1.0) b-values (Goebel et al, 2017) to high (>1.0) b-values (e.g., Bachmann et al, 2012;Brown & Liu, 2016;Goebel et al, 2017;Mousavi et al, 2017;Ogwari et al, 2018). We include all earthquakes of magnitude 1.0 and larger.…”
Section: Coulomb Static Stress Transfer Modelingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We use three b-values low, average, and high (0.8, 1.0, and 1.2, respectively) and keep a consistent at a = 3. A range of b-values has been calculated for induced seismicity from low (<1.0) b-values (Goebel et al, 2017) to high (>1.0) b-values (e.g., Bachmann et al, 2012;Brown & Liu, 2016;Goebel et al, 2017;Mousavi et al, 2017;Ogwari et al, 2018). We include all earthquakes of magnitude 1.0 and larger.…”
Section: Coulomb Static Stress Transfer Modelingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Natural seismicity in Utah exhibits both strike‐slip and normal faulting with tens of M3+ events occurring per year (Arabasz et al., 2016). In the broader context, induced earthquake cases have been noted in association with both coal mining (Arabasz et al., 2005; Pechmann et al., 2008) and subsurface injection operations (Brown & Liu, 2016). Focusing slightly closer to the FORGE project, in the Marysvale volcanic field, swarm activity dominates the seismic activity, is typically associated with events in the upper crust, and is thought to be related to either hydrothermal or volcanic activity (Arabasz et al., 2007).…”
Section: Study Area and Monitoring Arraysmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Groundwater models in locations of wastewater injection are important to determine the cause of induced seismicity and plan mitigation strategies. In these models, literature values of hydrogeologic parameters are frequently used for the specific aquifer formation or type of formation (e.g., Keranen et al 2014 ; Brown and Liu 2016 ). Some injection‐induced seismicity areas may have core samples available for laboratory testing (e.g., Brown et al 2017 ).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%