Injection‐induced seismicity and fault‐slip potential in the Fort Worth Basin, Texas

PH Hennings, JEL Snee… - Bulletin of the …, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The rate of seismicity in the hydrocarbon‐producing Fort Worth Basin of north‐central Texas,
which underlies the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area, increased markedly from 2008 …

Pore pressure threshold and fault slip potential for induced earthquakes in the Dallas‐Fort worth area of North Central Texas

PH Hennings, JP Nicot, RS Gao… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Earthquakes were induced in the Fort Worth Basin from 2008 through 2020 by increase in
pore pressure from injection of oilfield wastewater (SWD). In this region and elsewhere, a …

Distinguishing the causal factors of induced seismicity in the Delaware Basin: Hydraulic fracturing or wastewater disposal?

I Grigoratos, A Savvaidis… - … Society of America, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Identifying the causal factors behind elevated seismicity rates in areas with multiple ongoing
oil and gas activities has always been a challenging issue that is lacking a homogeneous …

Forecasting the long‐term spatial distribution of earthquakes for the 2023 US National Seismic Hazard Model using gridded seismicity

AL Llenos, AJ Michael… - Bulletin of the …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Probabilistic seismic hazard analyses such as the US National Seismic Hazard Model
(NSHM) typically rely on declustering and spatially smoothing an earthquake catalog to …

Fault Reactivation in Response to Saltwater Disposal and Hydrocarbon Production for the Venus, TX, Mw 4.0 Earthquake Sequence

M Haddad, P Eichhubl - Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 2023 - Springer
The combined effects of oil and gas production and saltwater disposal in stacked reservoirs
can result in poroelastic-stress changes that affect fault stability and induced seismicity but …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the variability in hydraulic fracturing-induced seismicity occurrence between North American shale plays

JP Verdon, G Rodríguez-Pradilla - Tectonophysics, 2023 - Elsevier
We examine differences in the occurrence rates of hydraulic fracturing-induced seismicity
(HF-IS) between different shale plays in North America. While previous studies have …

[HTML][HTML] Permeability-controlled migration of induced seismicity to deeper depths near Venus in North Texas

KW Chang, H Yoon - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Migration of seismic events to deeper depths along basement faults over time has been
observed in the wastewater injection sites, which can be correlated spatially and temporally …

Structural characterization of potentially seismogenic faults in the Fort Worth Basin

EA Horne, PH Hennings, JL Osmond, HR DeShon - Interpretation, 2020 - library.seg.org
Abstract From 2006 through mid-2018, there have been 125 Mw≥ 2.5 recorded
earthquakes within the Fort Worth Basin and the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area. There …

Minimal Clustering of Injection‐Induced Earthquakes Observed with a Large‐ Seismic Array

ES Cochran, A Wickham‐Piotrowski… - Bulletin of the …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The clustering behavior of injection‐induced earthquakes is examined using one month of
data recorded by the LArge‐n Seismic Survey in Oklahoma (LASSO) array. The 1829‐node …

Determination of local magnitude for earthquakes recorded from the Texas Seismological Network (TexNet)

F Kavoura, A Savvaidis… - … Society of America, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
In this study, we present a local magnitude (ML) relation for the earthquakes recorded from
the Texas Seismological Network (TexNet) between the dates of 1 January 2017 and 31 …