El Cuchillo Seismic Sequence of October 2013–July 2014 in the Burgos Basin, Northeastern Mexico: Hydraulic Fracturing or Reservoir‐Induced Seismicity?

Montalvo‐Arrieta, Juan C.; Pérez‐Campos, Xyoli; Ramos-Zúñiga, Luis G.; Paz‐Martínez, Edgar G.; Salinas‐Jasso, Jorge A.; León, Ignacio Navarro de; Ramírez-Fernández, Juan Alonso

doi:10.1785/0120180165

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“…This approach, and derivatives thereof (e.g. Davis et al, 1995;Frohlich et al, 2016a), remain widely used today (e.g., Montalvo-Arrieta et al, 2018;Grigoli et al, 2018). Hereafter we refer to Davis and Frohlich (1993) and the various frameworks derived from it as "Frohlich-based" (in honor of the common author among all of these papers).…”

Section: Critique Of Existing Induced Seismicity Assessment Frameworkmentioning

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An Improved Framework for Discriminating Seismicity Induced by Industrial Activities from Natural Earthquakes

Verdon¹,

Baptie

Bommer

2019

Seismological Research Letters

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Heightened concerns regarding induced seismicity necessitate robust methods to assess whether detected earthquakes near to industrial sites are natural, or induced by the industrial activity. These assessments are required rapidly, which often precludes detailed modeling of fluid pressures and the geomechanical response of the reservoir and nearby faults. Simple question-based assessment schemes in current use are a useful tool but suffer from several shortcomings: they do not specifically address questions regarding whether available evidence supports the case for natural seismicity; they give all questions equal weighting regardless of the relative influence of different factors; they are not formulated to account for ambiguous or uncertain evidence; and the final outcomes can be difficult to interpret. We propose a new framework that addresses these shortcomings by assigning numerical scores to each question, with positive values for answers that support induced seismicity and negative values for responses favoring natural seismicity. The score values available for each question reflect the relative importance of the different questions, and for each question the absolute value of the score is modulated according to the degree of uncertainty. The final outcome is a score, the Induced Assessment Ratio (IAR), either positive or negative (or zero), that reflects whether events were induced or natural. A second score, the Evidence Strength Ratio (ESR), is assigned that characterizes the strength of the available evidence, expressed as the ratio of the maximum score possible with the available evidence relative to the maximum score that could be obtained if all desired data were available at a site. We demonstrate this approach by application to two case studies in the UK, one widely regarded as a case of induced seismicity, the other more likely to be a series of tectonic earthquakes.

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Section: Critique Of Existing Induced Seismicity Assessment Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Improved Framework for Discriminating Seismicity Induced by Industrial Activities from Natural Earthquakes

Verdon¹,

Baptie

Bommer

2019

Seismological Research Letters

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“…Casos de sismicidad disparada por represas también han sido estudiados en Latinoamérica, destacando el estudio de la secuencia sísmica de El Cuchillo (más de 120 sismos 2,8 ≤ M D ≤ 4,5, localizados entre 1 y 20 km de profundidad), ocurrida entre octubre de 2013 y julio de 2014, en la cuenca de Burgos al noreste de México (Montalvo-Arrieta et al, 2018). El estudio señala que el factor detonante de esta sismicidad puede estar relacionado con el cambio del volumen de agua del embalse El Cuchillo, como consecuencia de 3 años de sequía que vaciaron la represa y su rápido proceso de llenado después de la ocurrencia del Huracán Ingrid (2013), lo que propició un incremento de su capacidad cercano al 40% de su volumen en unos pocos días.…”

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Sismicidad antropogénica en los alrededores de algunas represas en Colombia

Leal-Noriega¹,

Vargas-Jimenez²

2020

Bol. Geol.

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Esta investigación analiza si la sismicidad registrada en los alrededores de cinco embalses en Colombia, está relacionada con la sobrecarga y descarga ejercida por sus ciclos de llenado y vaciado, respectivamente. Las represas seleccionadas cuentan con diferentes rangos de volumen de almacenamiento de agua, por ser uno de los parámetros que más suelen influir en la sismicidad detonada por embalses. El período de estudio se delimitó entre los años 2000 y 2017, empleando como información de referencia los siguientes insumos: eventos sísmicos registrados por la Red Sismológica Nacional de Colombia, reportes diarios sobre el volumen de almacenamiento de los embalses, así como información geológico-estructural de las áreas de estudio a nivel regional generada por el Servicio Geológico Colombiano. Los análisis realizados para los embalses de Betania, Calima, Urrá y Salvajina, no permiten establecer de forma contundente una relación directa entre los sismos registrados y los cambios de volumen de estos embalses; sin embargo, los resultados obtenidos para la represa de Topocoro estiman posible que la construcción de esta estructura pueda estar incidiendo en la ocurrencia de una mayor cantidad de eventos sísmicos en sus alrededores.

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The Santo Domingo fault system, Galeana (Nuevo Leon): evidence of neotectonics between the Sierra Madre Oriental and the Basin and Range provinces and hazard implications for northeastern Mexico

Gauna-Sauceda,

Montalvo-Arrieta,

Salinas-Jasso

et al. 2023

Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch)

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El Cuchillo Seismic Sequence of October 2013–July 2014 in the Burgos Basin, Northeastern Mexico: Hydraulic Fracturing or Reservoir‐Induced Seismicity?

Cited by 8 publications

References 36 publications

An Improved Framework for Discriminating Seismicity Induced by Industrial Activities from Natural Earthquakes

An Improved Framework for Discriminating Seismicity Induced by Industrial Activities from Natural Earthquakes

Sismicidad antropogénica en los alrededores de algunas represas en Colombia

The Santo Domingo fault system, Galeana (Nuevo Leon): evidence of neotectonics between the Sierra Madre Oriental and the Basin and Range provinces and hazard implications for northeastern Mexico

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