Different Sensitivities of Earthquake‐Induced Water Level and Hydrogeological Property Variations in Two Aquifer Systems

Zhang, Hui; Shi, Zheming; Wang, Guangcai; Yan, Xin; Liu, Chenglong; Sun, Xiaolong; Ma, Ying-jeou; Wen, Donghui

doi:10.1029/2020wr028217

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“…Further, imbalances in the hydraulic head between sealed boreholes and the aquifer leads to an inverse response to that observed in an open well (Rasmussen & Crawford, 1997). In both cases, the resulting imbalance in hydraulic heads requires time to equilibrate, which provides the opportunity to estimate aquifer hydraulic properties (Rasmussen & Crawford, 1997; Rojstaczer, 1988; Rojstaczer & Agnew, 1989; Sun et al., 2019, 2020; H. Zhang et al., 2021; Y. Zhang et al., 2021).…”

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“…Groundwater responses to earth and atmospheric tides (EAT) are increasingly used in aquifer characterization (Espejo et al., 2022; Hsieh et al., 1987; Hussein et al., 2013; Odling et al., 2015; Qi et al., 2023; Rasmussen & Crawford, 1997; Sun et al., 2020; Valois et al., 2022; H. Zhang et al., 2019; H. Zhang et al., 2021; Y. Zhang et al., 2021). Analytical solutions are now available to determine aquifer hydraulic parameters using these passive methods both in the time and frequency domain.…”

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“…Groundwater responses to earth and atmospheric tides (EAT) are increasingly used in aquifer characterization (Espejo et al, 2022;Hsieh et al, 1987;Hussein et al, 2013;Odling et al, 2015;Qi et al, 2023;Rasmussen & Crawford, 1997;Valois et al, 2022;H. Zhang et al, 2019;H. Zhang et al, 2021;Y.…”

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Investigating the Representative of Aquifer Transmissivity Determined by Passive Response Methods: A Comparison With Time‐Dependent Hydraulic Parameters Inferred From Different Stages of Pumping Tests

Qi,

Shi,

Rasmussen

et al. 2024

Water Resources Research

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Aquifer pumping tests represent a standard method for estimating hydraulic characteristics, with practitioners often focusing on late period drawdown data because these are less affected by within‐ and near‐borehole effects (e.g., borehole‐storage and skin effects). Alternatively, groundwater responses to natural forcing (e.g., barometric pressure and earth tides) provide a passive method for estimating aquifer parameters at a low cost. However, to the best of our knowledge, no studies have compared parameters calculated from different periods within a pumping test with those from passive methods. Herein, we compare the aquifer transmissivity estimated using both active and passive methods in two wells located in the Beetaloo Region of Northern Australia. The active method estimates aquifer transmissivity during three periods (i.e., the early, middle, and late periods) of an aquifer pumping test, while the passive method employs groundwater responses to barometric‐pressure and earth‐tide fluctuations. We find that the range of best‐fit aquifer transmissivity is 1.18 × 10−5–1.79 × 10−5 m2/s and 1.73 × 10−5–2.14 × 10−5 m2/s for OW1 and OW2, respectively. The transmissivity estimated from the barometric pressure response method is the largest. The aquifer transmissivity using barometric pressure responses are consistent with early‐ and middle‐period estimates. This suggests that barometric pressure responses are more sensitive to within‐ and near‐borehole effects. The scales of the tidal response method are smaller than those of the pumping test method.

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Investigating the Representative of Aquifer Transmissivity Determined by Passive Response Methods: A Comparison With Time‐Dependent Hydraulic Parameters Inferred From Different Stages of Pumping Tests

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Shi,

Rasmussen

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Water Resources Research

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“…Tidal analysis is an inexpensive and effective monitoring tool to estimate time‐dependent hydrogeological parameters and study the influence of earthquakes on aquifers (e.g., Doan et al., 2006; Elkhoury et al., 2006; Hsieh et al., 1987; Zhang et al., 2021). Changes in the amplitude and phase of water‐level response to Earth tides can be related to changes in hydrogeological properties.…”

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Violent Groundwater Eruption Triggered by a Distant Earthquake

Yan

Shi

Wang

et al. 2022

Geophysical Research Letters

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It is now well established that earthquakes cause various hydrogeological responses at distances thousands of kilometers from the epicenter. What remains unexplained is the large amplitude and intensity of some responses. Following the 2004 Mw 9.1 Sumatra earthquake, groundwater 3,200 km from the epicenter erupted violently from a well and formed a water fountain reaching a height exceeding 60 m. We model the relevant processes by combining tidal analysis of groundwater level with numerical simulations using a two‐dimensional finite‐element model. We suggest that the eruption resulted from a combination of factors, including a rapid increase of crustal permeability and runaway CO2 exsolution and bubble nucleation induced by the passage of seismic waves. Our results may have implications for some engineering applications such as oil production and CO2 sequestration, and the eruption of hydrothermal features such as geysers.

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“…At greater distances from earthquakes, more than a few ruptured fault lengths, stresses can still be large enough to affect groundwater (Muir‐Wood & King, 1993). Understanding the conditions and mechanisms for earthquake‐induced changes, and the recovery processes and timescales after the earthquakes, remain the subject of active research (e.g., Kaown et al., 2021; Shi et al., 2015; Zhang, Shi et al., 2021). Earthquake‐induced changes to aquifers are more than curiosities as they may impact groundwater confinement (e.g., Liao et al., 2015; Wang et al., 2017; Zhang, Shi et al., 2021), water quality and contaminant transport (e.g., Gu et al., 2023; Hosono et al., 2019), water availability in wells (e.g., Fleeger, 1999; Rojstaczer & Wolf, 1992), and groundwater delivery to surface waters and ecosystems (e.g., Cox et al., 2012; Galassi et al., 2014; Hung & Weingarten, 2023; Mohr et al., 2021; Wang & Manga, 2015).…”

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Long‐ and Short‐Term Effects of Seismic Waves and Coseismic Pressure Changes on Fractured Aquifers

Zhang,

Manga,

et al. 2024

JGR Solid Earth

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Two adjacent groundwater wells on the North China Platform are used to study how earthquakes impacted aquifers. We use the response of water level to solid Earth tides to document changes after earthquakes and how aquifer and fracture properties recovered to pre‐earthquake properties. We consider two models for the phase and amplitude of water level response to the lunar diurnal (O1) and semidiurnal (M2) tides: a leaky aquifer model, and a model in which fracture orientation determines the response. In the leaky aquifer model, changes arise from changes in permeability and storage; in the fracture model, changes are due to changes in apparent orientation of transmissive fractures. Responses in one well are best explained by the leaky aquifer model, and can explain the large amplitude coseismic water level and permeability changes and the non‐recoverable changes after the largest earthquake. Responses in the other well are consistent with the fracture model and show little coseismic change in water level but changes in apparent fracture orientation. Larger ground motions lead to larger coseismic water level changes and longer recovery times. We propose that the well in the more permeable and shallow aquifer has less variable pore‐pressures around the well. Larger coseismic strains from water level changes may enable longer‐lasting changes in aquifer properties. We conclude that relatively high permeability aquifers are less susceptible to impacts from seismic waves, and thus have small changes in water levels and hydrogeological properties.

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Different Sensitivities of Earthquake‐Induced Water Level and Hydrogeological Property Variations in Two Aquifer Systems

Abstract: In recent decades, earthquake-induced groundwater level changes have been documented globally (

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Investigating the Representative of Aquifer Transmissivity Determined by Passive Response Methods: A Comparison With Time‐Dependent Hydraulic Parameters Inferred From Different Stages of Pumping Tests

Investigating the Representative of Aquifer Transmissivity Determined by Passive Response Methods: A Comparison With Time‐Dependent Hydraulic Parameters Inferred From Different Stages of Pumping Tests

Violent Groundwater Eruption Triggered by a Distant Earthquake

Long‐ and Short‐Term Effects of Seismic Waves and Coseismic Pressure Changes on Fractured Aquifers

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