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creators_name: Assumpcao, Marcelo
creators_name: Marza, Vasile
creators_name: Barros, Lucas
creators_name: Chimpliganond, Cristiano
creators_name: Soares, Jose Eduardo
creators_name: Carvalho, Juraci
creators_name: Caixeta, Daniel
creators_name: Amorim, Alexandre
creators_name: Cabral, Edmar
creators_id: marcelo@iag.usp.br
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corp_creators: Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brasil
corp_creators: Observatório Sismologico, Universidade de Brasilia, Campus Universitario, Brasil
title: Reservoir-induced Seismicity in Brazil
ispublished: pub
subjects: MP2
subjects: MP4
subjects: RB
subjects: SR
divisions: EPOS-P
full_text_status: none
keywords: Intraplate seismicity, Brazil, induced earthquakes, seismic hazard
abstract: A compilation of 16 cases of reservoir-induced seismicity in Brazil is presented with maximum magnitudes ranging from 1.6 M L to 4.2 m b . The compilation includes: location of the main epicentral area with respect to the reservoir (inside the lake, at the margin, or outside), predominant geology, and the temporal distribution of the main phase(s) of activity (initial or delayed in relation to impoundment). Data on the regional stress field for some reservoirs is also included. Four recent cases are discussed in more detail: Tucuruí, Nova Ponte, Miranda, and Serra da Mesa. A comparison with all other reservoirs deeper than 30 m and 50 m suggests that the hazard for induced-seismicity varies within Brazil: the NE part of the intracratonic Paraná basin has higher hazard as compared with the southern part of the same basin. No correlation of the induced hazard with variations in natural seismicity can be observed.
date: 2002
date_type: published
publication: Pure and Applied Geophysics
volume: 159
number: 1
publisher: Springer Verlag
pagerange: 597-617
id_number: doi:10.1007/PL00001266
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0033-4553
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/PL00001266
access_IS-EPOS: limited
owner: Publisher
citation:   Assumpcao, Marcelo and Marza, Vasile and Barros, Lucas and Chimpliganond, Cristiano and Soares, Jose Eduardo and Carvalho, Juraci and Caixeta, Daniel and Amorim, Alexandre and Cabral, Edmar  (2002) Reservoir-induced Seismicity in Brazil.  Pure and Applied Geophysics, 159 (1).  pp. 597-617. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00001266 <https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00001266>