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creators_name: Ellsworth, William L.
creators_name: Llenos, Andrea L.
creators_name: McGarr, Arthur F.
creators_name: Michael, Andrew J.
creators_name: Rubinstein, Justin L.
creators_name: Mueller, Charles S.
creators_name: Petersen, Mark D.
creators_name: Calais, Eric
creators_id: ellsworth@usgs.gov
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corp_creators: U. S. Geological Survey
corp_creators: U. S. Geological Survey
corp_creators: U. S. Geological Survey
corp_creators: U. S. Geological Survey
corp_creators: U. S. Geological Survey
corp_creators: U. S. Geological Survey
corp_creators: U. S. Geological Survey
corp_creators: École Normale Supérieure, PSL Research University.
title: Increasing seismicity in the U. S. midcontinent: Implications for earthquake hazard
subjects: MP2
subjects: MP3
subjects: RU
subjects: SHC
subjects: SHU
divisions: SHEER
full_text_status: none
abstract: Earthquake activity in parts of the central United States has
increased dramatically in recent years. The space-time distribution
of the increased seismicity, as well as numerous published
case studies, indicates that the increase is of anthropogenic origin,
principally driven by injection of wastewater coproduced
with oil and gas from tight formations. Enhanced oil recovery
and long-term production also contribute to seismicity at a few
locations. Preliminary hazard models indicate that areas experiencing
the highest rate of earthquakes in 2014 have a short-term
(one-year) hazard comparable to or higher than the hazard in
the source region of tectonic earthquakes in the New Madrid
and Charleston seismic zones.
date: 2015-06
date_type: published
publication: The Leading Edge
volume: 34
number: 6
publisher: Society of Exploration Geophysicists
pagerange: 618-626
id_number: doi:10.1190/tle34060618.1
issn: 1070-485X
official_url: http://doi.org/10.1190/tle34060618.1
access_IS-EPOS: limited
owner: Publisher
citation:   Ellsworth, William L. and Llenos, Andrea L. and McGarr, Arthur F. and Michael, Andrew J. and Rubinstein, Justin L. and Mueller, Charles S. and Petersen, Mark D. and Calais, Eric  (2015) Increasing seismicity in the U. S. midcontinent: Implications for earthquake hazard.  The Leading Edge, 34 (6).  pp. 618-626. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1190/tle34060618.1 <https://doi.org/10.1190/tle34060618.1>