Induced Earthquake Bibliography

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"FRACKING" WARNING

Some people have been abusing this web resource by claiming that it supports the claim that "fracking" which is properly called "hydrofracturing" induces earthquakes. This is untrue. None of the the papers on this website investigates or supports the claim that hydrofracturing induces earthquakes. All legitimate research has found no evidence of this. "Injection induced earthquakes" are NOT caused by hydrofracturing. Injection of fluids for the purpose of waste disposal or well stimulation is NOT "fracking." Injection of fluids CAN induce earthquakes in some circumstances. Hydrofracturing has NOT been found to induce earthquakes.




  1. Deyi Feng, Xuejun Yu & Jinqping Gu, "Assessment of Potential Strength of an Induced Earthquake Using Fuzzy Multi-Factorial Evaluation," 145 Pure & Applied Geophys. 149 (1995)

  2. Santosh Kumar Guhu, "Induced Earthquakes," 31 Natural Hazards 289 (2004)

  3. Santosh Kumar Guhu, Induced Earthquakes, Springer, 332 pp. (1999)

  4. Jean-Robert Grasso, "Testing Self-organized Criticality by Induced Seismicity," 103 Journal of Geophysical Research 29,965 (1998)

  5. Carl Kisslinger, "A Review of Theories of Mechanisms of Induced Seismicity," 10 Engineering Geology 85 (1976)

  6. D. M. McCann, "Induced Seismicity in Engineering, Engineering Geology of Underground Movements," Geological Soc. Eng. Geol. Spec. Pub. No. 5 397 (eds., F.G. Bell, M.G. Culshaw, J.C. Cripps & M. A. Lovell, 1988)

  7. P. Knoll, Induced seismicity, A.A. Balkema, Vermont, 469 pp. (1992)

  8. William A. Peppin & Charles G. Bufe, "Induced Versus Natural Earthquakes: Search for a Seismic Discriminant," 70 Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 269 (1980)

  9. D. W. Simpson, "Triggered Earthquakes," 14 Ann. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 21 (1986)

  10. Cezar I. Trifu, The Mechanism of Induced Seismicity, Birkhauser; 617 pp. (2002)

  11. Cezar I. Trifu, D. Angus & V. Shumila, "A Fast Evaluation of the Seismic Moment Tensor for Induced Seismicity," 90 Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, December 1521 (2000)

  12. P. A. Witherspoon, & J. E. Gale, "Mechanical and hydraulic properties of rocks related to induced seismicity," 11 Engineering Geology 23 (1977)

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