期刊
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
卷 43, 期 16, 页码 8482-8491出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL070421
关键词
hydraulic fracturing-induced seismicity; poroelasticity; Coulomb stress; hydraulic fracturing
资金
- NSERC Discovery grant [NSERC RGPIN 418338-12]
The Crooked Lake area in Central Alberta, Canada, became seismically active in December 2013 with a sequence of earthquakes M-w 2.0 and higher. The earthquakes are suspected to be induced by hydraulic fracturing in nearby horizontal wells due to their strong spatiotemporal correlation. To investigate the physical mechanism of the induced seismicity near Crooked Lake, we calculate stress and pore pressure perturbations resulting from high-rate multistage fluid injection in the framework of linear poroelasticity. The calculated perturbations are used for seismic risk analysis based on the Coulomb failure criterion. Results show that most seismicity is within a positive Coulomb stress change regime, indicating that failure is promoted by injection of fluid. By comparing Coulomb stress results for different parameter settings, we show that elastic response of the solid matrix, instead of fluid diffusion, is more likely the dominant factor for the induced earthquakes shortly after fluid injection.
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