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Room: Exhibit Hall A+B

Date: 4/17/2026

Session Time: 8:00 AM to 5:45 PM (local time)

From Drilling to Ground Shaking: Mechanisms, Monitoring and Mitigation of Induced Earthquakes

The widespread occurrence of induced earthquakes has generated substantial scientific and societal concerns. These seismic events result from expanded oil and gas extraction — driven by increasing energy demands — as well as geothermal energy production, mining operations and carbon capture and storage activities. The spatiotemporal evolution of induced seismicity is governed by complex interactions among site-specific poroelastic responses, fluid budgets, injection and production histories, reservoir dimension, subsurface hydro-mechanical properties and fault slip behavior under varying drainage conditions. Subsurface stress redistribution depends on fault geometry, hydraulic connectivity and coupled fluid-mechanical processes that are difficult to model.

Understanding these interactions requires integrative and multidisciplinary approaches to illuminate underlying physical mechanisms and guide effective hazard mitigation strategies. We invite submissions that advance induced seismicity research through case studies, novel methodologies and innovative datasets. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, seismological source studies and machine learning applications for source characterization, enhanced seismic network performance and sensitivity improvements, 3D fault imaging, stress field modeling, numerical simulations of pressure fields and InSAR modeling, ground motion prediction models for induced events and coupled hydrologic and geomechanical modeling informed by operational data.

We particularly encourage contributions leveraging large and integrated datasets, e.g. ,seismic, borehole, geodetic and experimental data, to explore the co-evolution of seismicity, stress, reservoir properties and hydro-mechanical processes. This session aims to deepen our understanding of induced seismicity and support the development of comprehensive mitigation strategies.

Conveners

Asiye Aziz Zanjani, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (asiye.azizzanjani@nmt.edu)
Urbi Basu, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (urbi.basu@nmt.edu)
Yangkang Chen, University of Texas at Austin (yangkang.chen@beg.utexas.edu)
Sebastian Hainzl, GFZ Potsdam (hainzl@gfz.de)
Thomas H. Goebel, University of Memphis (thgoebel@memphis.edu)
Semechah Lui, University of Toronto (semechah.lui@utoronto.ca)

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