Potential for water-table excursions induced by seismic events at Yucca Mountain, Nevada

Carrigan, Charles R.; King, Geoffrey; Barr, G.E.; Bixler, Nathan E.

doi:10.1130/0091-7613(1991)019<1157:pfwtei>2.3.co;2

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“…; Barr, G.E. ;and Bixler, N.E. 1991 Carrigan et al (1991 [DIRS 100967]) of tectonohydrological coupling involving earthquakes typical of the Basin and Range province (approximately 1 m slip) produced 2 to 3 m excursions of a water table 500 m below the ground surface.…”

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“…Numerical simulations by Carrigan et al (1991 [DIRS 100967]) of tectonohydrological coupling involving earthquakes typical of the Basin and Range province (approximately 1 m slip) produced 2 to 3 m excursions of a water table 500 m below the ground surface. Extrapolation to an event of about 4 m slip would result in a transient rise of 17 m near the fault (Carrigan et al 1991 [DIRS 100967], p. 1,159). Carrigan et al (1991 [DIRS 100967]) modeled a 100 m wide fracture zone centered on a vertical fault, with vertical permeability increased by a factor of 10 3 .…”

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“…The study for the water-level changes is also important to some natural hazards related to earthquakes. Examples are landslides and debris flows after an earthquake, liquefactions of soil and groundwater pollution caused by mixing of radioactive wastes or other high-risk wastes (Carrigan et al, 1991;Inverson and Major, 1986;Todorovska and Trifunac, 1999). Since the earthquakerelated groundwater level changes were scattered and rarely observed by a sufficiently dense network of observation wells, such studies have not been adequately developed.…”

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Effects of seismic ground motion and geological setting on the coseismic groundwater level changes caused by the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake, Taiwan

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The groundwater level changes induced by the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake were well recorded at the monitoring wells in and around the Choshui River alluvial fan, Taiwan, which is adjacent to the focal region. We analyzed the coseismic groundwater level changes related to the geological setting and seismic ground motion. In a typical fan area, the groundwater levels coseismically rose and those amplitudes increased as the ground acceleration and hydraulic conductivity became larger. In the slope area near the earthquake fault, the groundwater levels coseismically dropped and those amplitudes increased as the ground acceleration became larger. The liquefaction and permeability enhancement, whose degrees depend on the geological setting and seismic ground motion, might explain the characteristics of the coseismic groundwater level changes in the Choshui River alluvial fan.

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“…The study of earthquake-related groundwater level changes is also important within the context of gathering data on earthquakerelated natural hazards, such as postseismic landslides and debris flows, liquefactions of soil, and groundwater pollution caused by the mixing of radioactive or other high-risk wastes (Inverson and Major, 1986;Carrigan et al, 1991;Todorovska and Trifunac, 1999). Montgomery and Manga (2003) reviewed the reported observations of such changes and classified them in relation to earthquake magnitude and epicentral distance.…”

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Evaluation of the effects of ground shaking and static volumetric strain change on earthquake-related groundwater level changes in Taiwan

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Between 2001 and 2005, the Disaster Prevention Research Center of National Cheng-Kung University established a groundwater observation network consisting of 16 wells. Most of these were located along active faults for research on earthquake-related groundwater changes. They were selected mainly from among the 550 groundwater observation wells of the Water Resources Agency (WRA), which monitors and manages groundwater resources in Taiwan. The groundwater level was observed at a resolution of 0.2 mm at the wells. The depths of the well screens ranged between 80 and 252 m. Groundwater level data at six of the 16 wells were analyzed between 2003 and 2006 in an evaluation of such data for use in detecting earthquake-related groundwater level changes. The strain sensitivities of the groundwater level at these six wells ranged between 0.1 and 0.5 mm/10 −9 , indicating that an analysis of groundwater level data at these six wells can detect volumetric strain changes on the order of 10 −9 . Coseismic and/or postseismic groundwater level changes associated with 17 earthquakes in and around Taiwan whose magnitudes were ≥6 were also analyzed. Our analysis shows that ground shaking seems the main reason for earthquake-related changes but that the acceleration of ground shaking cannot always explain the observed groundwater level changes.

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Potential for water-table excursions induced by seismic events at Yucca Mountain, Nevada

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Features, Events and Processes in UZ Flow and Transport

Features, Events and Processes in UZ Flow and Transport

Effects of seismic ground motion and geological setting on the coseismic groundwater level changes caused by the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake, Taiwan

Evaluation of the effects of ground shaking and static volumetric strain change on earthquake-related groundwater level changes in Taiwan

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