TY  - JOUR
ID  - epos1832
UR  - http://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-014-0795-x
IS  - 8
A1  - Johnson, L. R.
N2  - At The Geysers geothermal reservoir in northern California, evidence strongly suggests that activities associated with production of electric power cause an increase in the number of small earthquakes. First-degree dynamic moment tensors are used to investigate the relationship between induced earthquakes and injection of water into a well as part of a controlled experiment in the northwest Geysers. The estimation of dynamic moment tensors in the complex shallow crust at The Geysers is challenging, so the method is described in detail with particular attention given to the uncertainty in the results. For seismic events in the moment magnitude range of 0.9?2.8, spectral moduli of dynamic moment tensors are reliably recovered in the frequency range of 1?100 Hz, but uncertainty in the associated spectral phases limits their use to a few simple results. A number of different static moment tensors are investigated, with the preferred one obtained from parameters of a model ?tted to the spectral modulus of the dynamic moment tensor. Moment tensors estimated for a group of 20 earthquakes exhibit a range of source mechanisms, with over half having signi?cant isotropic parts of either positive or negative sign. Corner frequencies of the isotropic part of the moment tensor are about 40 % larger than the average of the deviatoric moment tensor. Some spatial patterns are present in source mechanisms, with earthquakes closely related in space tending to have similar mechanisms, but at the same time, some nearby earthquakes have very different mechanisms. Tensional axes of displacement in the source regions are primarily horizontal, while the pressure axes range from near horizontal to vertical. Injection of water into the well in the center of the study area clearly causes an increase in the number of earthquakes per day, but an effect upon source mechanisms is not evident.
VL  - 171
TI  - Source Mechanisms of Induced Earthquakes at The Geysers Geothermal Reservoir
AV  - none
EP  - 1668
Y1  - 2014///
PB  - Springer Verlag
JF  - Pure and Applied Geophysics
KW  - Geysers geothermal reservoir
KW  -  induced earthquakes
KW  -  source mechanism.
SN  - 0033-4553
SP  - 1641
ER  -