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Room: 204

Date: 4/19/2023

Session Time: 8:00 AM to 3:15 PM (local time)

Earthquakes caused by anthropogenic operations pose serious risks: either in terms of their potential for economic/human losses or their ability to place moratoriums on resource development. While induced seismicity is one of the major impediments for many resource/energy projects, to date, limited attention has been paid to improving the management of induced earthquakes. Solutions to induced seismicity will be multi-disciplinary and require an approach that includes monitoring the development of induced seismicity, characterizing the geophysical principles involved in fault reactivation, assessing the geological conditions for fault susceptibility, testing operational mitigatory actions, designing regulatory controls, and clear communication of stakeholder concerns. In this spirit, our session invites abstract submissions from all facets of induced seismicity. These studies could include physical/statistical modeling that delve into describing how/why these events occur, laboratory measurements that infer analogs between modeling and observation, hazard/risk assessments that provide management strategies or regulatory/industry perspectives on successful mitigation/avoidance strategies. Overall, the successful management of induced earthquakes will require an integrated understanding of all these aspects. Toward this goal of better understanding and managing induced seismicity, we welcome studies from various scales and regions that could facilitate an integrated understanding of the above aspects.

Conveners:

Ryan Schultz, Stanford University (rjs10@ stanford.edu)

Ruijia Wang, Southern University of Science and Technology (ruijia.wang@ualberta.ca)

Margaret Glasgow, University of New Mexico (mglasgow@unm. edu)

Mohammad J. A. Moein, Freie Universität Berlin (mohammad.moein@fu-berlin.de)

Oral Presentations