TY  - JOUR
ID  - epos2051
UR  - http://doi.org/10.1017/njg.2017.12
IS  - 05
A1  - Jagt, Lisanne
A1  - Ruigrok, Elmer
A1  - Paulssen, Hanneke
N2  - Previous locations of earthquakes induced by depletion of the Groningen gas field were not accurate enough to infer which faults in the reservoir are reactivated. A multiplet analysis is performed to identify clusters of earthquakes that have similar waveforms, representing repeating rupture on the same or nearby faults. The multiplet analysis is based on the cross-correlation of seismograms to assess the degree of similarity. Using data of a single station, six earthquake clusters within the limits of the Groningen field were identified for the period 2010 to mid-2014. Four of these clusters
were suitable for a relocation method that is based on the difference in travel time between the P- and the S-wave. Events within a cluster can be relocated relative to a master event with improved accuracy by cross-correlating first arrivals. By choosing master events located with a new dense seismic network, the relocated events likely not only have better relative, but also improved absolute locations. For a few clusters with sufficient signal-to-noise detections, we show that the relocation method is successful in assigning clusters to specific faults at the reservoir level. Overall, about 90% of the events did not show clustering, despite choosing low correlation thresholds of 0.5 and 0.6. This suggests that different faults and/or fault segments with likely varying source mechanisms are active in reservoir sub-regions of a few square kilometres.
VL  - 96
TI  - Relocation of clustered earthquakes in the Groningen gas field
AV  - none
EP  - s173
Y1  - 2017///
PB  - Cambridge University Press
JF  - Netherlands Journal of Geosciences
KW  - Groningen
KW  -  induced seismicity
KW  -  multiplet analysis
KW  -  relocation
SN  - 0016-7746
SP  - s163
ER  -