Induced Earthquake Bibliography

Seismicity Related to Undergound Gas Storage

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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. T.F. Barron, Regulatory, Technical Pressures Prompt More U.S. Salt-Cavern Gas Storage, Oil and Gas Journal 55 (Sept. 12, 1994) J.F. Carrierre, G. Fasanino, M. R. Tek, Mixing in Underground Storage Reservoirs, SPE Technical Paper 14202 Soc. of Pet. Eng. (1985)

  2. J. P. Deflandre, J. Laurent, D. Michon & E. Blondin, Microseismic Surveying and repeated VSPs for Monitoring an Underground Gas Storage Reservoir Using Permanent Geophones, 13 First Break 129 (April 1995).

  3. H. Reginald Hardy Jr., Stability Monitoring of an Underground Gas Storage Reservoir, Proc. 2nd Conf. Acoustic Emission/ Microseismic Activity in Geologic Structures and Mat. 331 (H.R. Hardy, Jr. & F.W. Leighton, ed. 1980)

  4. Richard Lingle & C. Gregory Francis, Accoustic Emission Monitoring at Coalville, Utah, Proc. 2nd Conf. Acoustic Emission/ Microseismic Activity in Geologic Structures and Mat. 359 (H.R. Hardy, Jr. & F.W. Leighton, ed. 1980)

  5. D. Meister, Microacoustic Studies in Salt Rock, Proc. 2nd Conf. Acoustic Emission/ Microseismic Activity in Geologic Structures and Mat. 259 (H.R. Hardy, Jr. & F.W. Leighton, ed. 1980)

  6. Alexander C.G. Nagelhout, Induced Seismicity Associated with Hydrocarbon Extraction, Fluid Injection and Underground Gas Storage, Master's Thesis, Delft University of Techonology, Delft, Netherlands (1996)

  7. Frank W. Osterwald, John B. Bennetti, Jr. and C. Richard Dunrud, Preliminary Investigation of Seismic Tremors in the General Area of the Leyden Coal Mine Gas-Storage Reservoir, Colorado, U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report #1760 20 pp. (1973).

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