Cryoseismology

EA Podolskiy, F Walter - Reviews of geophysics, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The last decade witnessed an explosion in yearly number of publications on passive glacier
seismology. The seismic signals from a wide range of glacier‐related processes fill a broad …

Induced seismicity in geothermal reservoirs: A review of forecasting approaches

E Gaucher, M Schoenball, O Heidbach, A Zang… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2015 - Elsevier
In order to reach Europe׳ s 2020 and 2050 targets in terms of greenhouse gas emissions,
geothermal resources will have to contribute substantially to meeting carbon-free energy …

Variations in earthquake-size distribution across different stress regimes

D Schorlemmer, S Wiemer, M Wyss - Nature, 2005 - nature.com
The earthquake size distribution follows, in most instances, a power law,, with the slope of
this power law, the 'b value', commonly used to describe the relative occurrence of large and …

Acoustic emissions document stress changes over many seismic cycles in stick‐slip experiments

TH W. Goebel, D Schorlemmer… - Geophysical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The statistics of large earthquakes commonly involve large uncertainties due to the lack of
long‐term, robust earthquake recordings. Small‐scale seismic events are abundant and can …

Influence of pore‐pressure on the event‐size distribution of induced earthquakes

CE Bachmann, S Wiemer… - Geophysical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
During an Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS) experiment, fluid is injected at high
pressure into crystalline rock, to enhance its permeability and thus create a reservoir from …

[HTML][HTML] Subduction zone megathrust earthquakes

SL Bilek, T Lay - Geosphere, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Subduction zone megathrust faults host Earth's largest earthquakes, along with multitudes of
smaller events that contribute to plate convergence. An understanding of the faulting …

Neural networks to predict earthquakes in Chile

J Reyes, A Morales-Esteban, F Martínez-Álvarez - Applied Soft Computing, 2013 - Elsevier
A new earthquake prediction system is presented in this work. This method, based on the
application of artificial neural networks, has been used to predict earthquakes in Chile, one …

Randomness of megathrust earthquakes implied by rapid stress recovery after the Japan earthquake

T Tormann, B Enescu, J Woessner, S Wiemer - Nature Geoscience, 2015 - nature.com
Constraints on the recurrence times of subduction zone earthquakes are important for
seismic hazard assessment and mitigation. Models of such megathrust earthquakes often …

Decade‐scale decrease inb value prior to the M9‐class 2011 Tohoku and 2004 Sumatra quakes

KZ Nanjo, N Hirata, K Obara… - Geophysical Research …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The Gutenberg‐Richter frequency‐magnitude distribution of earthquakes has become well
established in seismology. The slope of the relation between frequency and magnitude (b …

Spatiotemporal variations in the b-value of earthquake magnitude–frequency distributions: Classification and causes

ZH El-Isa, DW Eaton - Tectonophysics, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Interpretation of the b-value of earthquake frequency–magnitude distributions has
received considerable attention in recent decades. This paper provides a comprehensive …