eprintid: 1267 rev_number: 19 eprint_status: archive userid: 2 dir: disk0/00/00/12/67 datestamp: 2015-02-11 11:53:44 lastmod: 2017-02-08 12:21:44 status_changed: 2015-04-27 12:10:35 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: van der Elst, Nicholas J. creators_name: Savage, Heather M. creators_name: Keranen, Katie M. creators_name: Abers, Geoffrey A. creators_id: nicholas@ldeo.columbia.edu creators_id: creators_id: creators_id: corp_creators: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Post Office Box 1000, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964, USA. corp_creators: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Post Office Box 1000, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964, USA. corp_creators: ConocoPhillips School of Geology and Geophysics, University of Oklahoma, 100 East Boyd Street, Norman, OK 73069, USA. corp_creators: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Post Office Box 1000, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964, USA. title: Enhanced Remote Earthquake Triggering at Fluid-Injection Sites in the Midwestern United States ispublished: pub subjects: MP2 subjects: MP4 subjects: RU subjects: SR divisions: EPOS-P full_text_status: none abstract: A recent dramatic increase in seismicity in the midwestern United States may be related to increases in deep wastewater injection. Here, we demonstrate that areas with suspected anthropogenic earthquakes are also more susceptible to earthquake-triggering from natural transient stresses generated by the seismic waves of large remote earthquakes. Enhanced triggering susceptibility suggests the presence of critically loaded faults and potentially high fluid pressures. Sensitivity to remote triggering is most clearly seen in sites with a long delay between the start of injection and the onset of seismicity and in regions that went on to host moderate magnitude earthquakes within 6 to 20 months. Triggering in induced seismic zones could therefore be an indicator that fluid injection has brought the fault system to a critical state. date: 2013 date_type: published publication: Science volume: 341 number: 6142 publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science pagerange: 164-167 id_number: doi:10.1126/science.1238948 refereed: TRUE issn: 0036-8075 official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1238948 access_IS-EPOS: limited owner: Publisher citation: van der Elst, Nicholas J. and Savage, Heather M. and Keranen, Katie M. and Abers, Geoffrey A. (2013) Enhanced Remote Earthquake Triggering at Fluid-Injection Sites in the Midwestern United States. Science, 341 (6142). pp. 164-167. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1238948