[1] Pulse widths of P waves in granite, measured in the laboratory, were analyzed to investigate source durations of rupture processes for water-pressure induced and stress-induced microseismicity. Water was injected into a dry granite sample under constant axial stress of about 70% of fracture strength and a confining pressure of 40 MPa. After the effects of event size and hypocentral distance were removed from observed pulse widths, the ratio of the scaled source durations of waterpressure induced and stress-induced microseismicity was 0.52. The difference in the scaled source durations between waterpressure induced and stress-induced microseismicity suggests that water-pressure induced microseismicity involves a greater rupture velocity or a more equidimensional fault geometry than stress-induced microseismicity. These results suggest that pulse width analysis of P waveforms can be used to distinguish waterpressure induced events from those induced by regional stress and to characterize the faulting process. Citation: Masuda, K.(2013), Source duration of stress and water-pressure induced seismicity derived from experimental analysis of P wave pulse width in granite,