Subsurface fluid injection and induced seismicity in southeast Saskatchewan

JP Verdon, JM Kendall, AC Horleston… - International Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
… evaluate recorded seismicity in southeast Saskatchewan and … whether oilfield activities
have induced seismic activity. By … seismic activity across the broader southeast Saskatchewan-…

Induced seismicity in mines in Canada—an overview

HS Hasegawa, RJ Wetmiller, DJ Gendzwill - pure and applied geophysics, 1989 - Springer
… Southern Saskatchewan is a region of low-level seismicity. Ten natural earthquakes have
been located instrumentally since t968 with the largest a magnitude (mhL~) 3.7. However, a …

Induced seismicity in western Canada linked to tectonic strain rate: Implications for regional seismic hazard

H Kao, R Hyndman, Y Jiang, R Visser… - Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… Using the two boundary lines in Figures 1a and 1b that define the areas of most local
seismicity and injection operations, we identify a NW-SE trending band where the levels of …

A model for induced seismicity caused by hydrocarbon production in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin

V Baranova, A Mustaqeem… - Canadian Journal of Earth …, 1999 - cdnsciencepub.com
… a southeast–northwest-trending axis across southern Manitoba, southern Saskatchewan, …
by more than six seismic stations in Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Montana. …

Induced seismicity

KM Keranen, M Weingarten - Annual Review of Earth and …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Induced earthquakes are challenging to identify using seismological methods, and faults …
of induced seismicity. However, the similarity of induced and natural seismicity provides an …

Probabilistic assessment of induced seismicity at the Alberta No. 1 geothermal project site

A Yaghoubi, CJ Hickson, Y Leonenko… - Canadian Journal of …, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
… If this is the case, long-term fluid injection in the Grande Prairie region might also cause
slow-slip injection-induced seismicity on northwest-southeast down-to-the-basin listric faults. …

Human‐induced seismicity and large‐scale hydrocarbon production in the USA and C anada

M Van der Baan, FJ Calixto - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
… An isolated pocket of 15 events exists in south-east Saskatchewan (black dots in top right
of Figure 7a). This area also experienced a swarm of eight events during the early 1980s (red …

Testing self‐organized criticality by induced seismicity

JR Grasso, D Sornette - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
… In situ stress measurements in areas of active faulting and induced seismicity suggest that …
cases of induced seismicity, including reservoir-induced seismicity and seismicity triggered by …

Automated microseismic processing and integrated interpretation of induced seismicity during a multistage hydraulic‐fracturing stimulation, Alberta, Canada

G Rodríguez‐Pradilla… - Bulletin of the …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
… Based on the observed spatial correlation between induced seismicity and the abrupt offset
of the inferred southeast‐flowing Gilwood channel, we infer that the north–south section of …

Lateral fluid propagation and strike slip fault reactivation related to hydraulic fracturing and induced seismicity in the Duvernay Formation, Fox Creek area, Alberta

E Konstantinovskaya, Q Li, A Zhmodik… - Geophysical Journal …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… for the case study of induced seismicity associated with the … faults or fractures and associated
induced seismicity (Eaton & … is known for the occurrence of induced seismicity (Fig. 1b) that …