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Shokrollahzadeh Behbahani, S. (author)Induced seismicity refers to seismic events (earthquakes) triggered by human activities. Such events, even when characterized by relatively modest magnitudes, have the potential to jeopardize the safety of individuals, the surrounding environment, and infrastructure. <br/><br/>Production from hydrocarbon reservoirs can alter the in-situ stress...doctoral thesis 2024
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Veltmeijer, A.V. (author)Activities underground, such as gas extraction or fluid injection, can disturb the natural stresses present and can cause human-induced earthquakes along pre-existing faults. Even though they are related to engineering, these earthquakes are currently unpredictable. Monitoring and understanding how these earthquakes occur are essential for a...doctoral thesis 2024
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Novikov, A. (author)Safe and sustainable exploitation of geo-energy resources requires not only a comprehensive evaluation of the performance and economics of the corresponding projects but also the assessments of the associated risks, including the risk of induced seismicity. Indeed, seismic events may arise from the reactivation of natural faults and fractures...doctoral thesis 2024
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Masfara, La ODE Marzujriban (author), Weemstra, C. (author)The Hamiltonian Monte Carlo algorithm is known to be highly efficient when sampling high-dimensional model spaces due to Hamilton's equations guiding the sampling process. For weakly non-linear problems, linearizing the forward problem enhances this efficiency. This study integrates this linearization with geological prior knowledge for...journal article 2024
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Veltmeijer, A.V. (author), Naderloo, M. (author), Pluymakers, Anne (author), Barnhoorn, A. (author)Induced earthquakes are still highly unpredictable, and often caused by variations in pore fluid pressure. Monitoring and understanding the mechanisms of fluid-induced fault slip is essential for seismic risk mitigation and seismicity forecasting. Fluid-induced slip experiments were performed on critically stressed faulted sandstone samples,...journal article 2024
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Shirmohammadi, F. (author), Draganov, D.S. (author), Veltmeijer, A.V. (author), Naderloo, M. (author), Barnhoorn, A. (author)Seismic interferometry (SI) retrieves new seismic responses, for example reflections, between either receivers or sources. When SI is applied to a reflection survey with active sources and receivers at the surface, non-physical (ghost) reflections are retrieved as well. Ghost reflections, retrieved from the correlation of two primary...journal article 2024
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Oumejjoud, Salima (author)Using a field classification, I have assessed the likelihood that a gas field caused a seismic event. I have put the focus on all of the minor gas fields located in the Rotliegend sandstone formation in the Netherlands. These gas fields were divided into five geologically distinctly different regions: the North Holland Platform (NHP), the...master thesis 2023
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Jansen, J.D. (author)This note provides unregularized and regularized closed-form analytical expressions for the depletion-induced or injection-induced pre-slip Coulomb stresses in two-dimensional displaced dip-slip faults. The regularization serves to remove logarithmic singularities and jump-discontinuities in the unregularized formulation. The expressions are...report 2023
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Naderloo, M. (author), Veltmeijer, A.V. (author), Jansen, J.D. (author), Barnhoorn, A. (author)Recent laboratory and field studies suggest that temporal variations in injection patterns (e.g., cyclic injection) might trigger less seismicity than constant monotonic injection. This study presents results from uniaxial compressive experiments performed on Red Felser sandstone samples providing new information on the effect of stress...journal article 2023
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Cornelissen, P. (author), Jansen, J.D. (author)We consider steady-state single-phase confined flow through a subsurface porous layer containing a displaced, fully conductive fault causing a sudden jump in the flow path, and we employ (semi-)analytical techniques to compute the corresponding pressures and fault stresses. In particular, we obtain a new solution for the pressure field with...journal article 2023
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Anikiev, Denis (author), Birnie, Claire (author), Waheed, Umair bin (author), Alkhalifah, Tariq (author), Gu, Chen (author), Verschuur, D.J. (author), Eisner, Leo (author)The confluence of our ability to handle big data, significant increases in instrumentation density and quality, and rapid advances in machine learning (ML) algorithms have placed Earth Sciences at the threshold of dramatic progress. ML techniques have been attracting increased attention within the seismic community, and, in particular, in...review 2023
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Vinard, N. (author)When humans started started exploiting the abundant underground natural resources the Earth has to offer such as hydrocarbons, minerals and heat, we started to experience earthquakes that are related to this exploitation, so called induced earthquakes. Under certain conditions those can damage local infrastructure. However, most events are weak...doctoral thesis 2022
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Muntendam-Bos, A.G. (author), Hoedeman, Gerco (author), Polychronopoulou, Katerina (author), Draganov, D.S. (author), Weemstra, C. (author), van der Zee, Wouter (author), Bakker, R.R. (author), Roest, J.C. (author)We present an overview of induced seismicity due to subsurface engineering in the Netherlands. Our overview includes events induced by gas extraction, underground gas storage, geothermal heat extraction, salt solution mining and post-mining water ingress. Compared to natural seismicity, induced events are usually small (magnitudes ≤ 4.0)....journal article 2022
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Ruan, J. (author), Masfara, La ODE Marzujriban (author), Ghose, R. (author), Mulder, W.A. (author)Dynamic geomechanical modeling can generate the seismic wavefield caused by a fault rupture. In dynamic fault-rupture modeling, the source is considered to be finite, with a limited extent both in space and in time. This contrasts with the definition of a point source, which is generally assumed to explain the seismic wavefield caused by an...book chapter 2022
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Candela, Thibault (author), Pluymaekers, Maarten (author), Ampuero, Jean Paul (author), Van Wees, Jan Diederik (author), Buijze, Loes (author), Wassing, Brecht (author), Osinga, Sander (author), Grobbe, Niels (author), Muntendam-Bos, A.G. (author)The induced seismicity in the Groningen gas field, The Netherlands, presents contrasted spatio-temporal patterns between the central area and the south west area. Understanding the origin of this contrast requires a thorough assessment of two factors: (1) the stress development on the Groningen faults and (2) the frictional response of the...journal article 2022
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Novikov, A. (author), Voskov, D.V. (author), Khait, M. (author), Hajibeygi, H. (author), Jansen, J.D. (author)We present a scalable collocated Finite Volume Method (FVM) to simulate induced seismicity as a result of pore pressure changes. A discrete system is obtained based on a fully-implicit fully-coupled description of flow, elastic deformation, and contact mechanics at fault surfaces on a flexible unstructured mesh. The cell-centered collocated...journal article 2022
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Schultz, Ryan (author), Muntendam-Bos, A.G. (author), Zhou, W. (author), Beroza, Gregory C. (author), Ellsworth, William L. (author)Prospects for geothermal energy in the Netherlands have renewed concerns around induced earthquakes. Risks from induced earthquakes are managed by traffic light protocols (TLPs), where the red-light is chosen as the stop-point before exceeding a tolerance to risk. Here, we simulate post-shut-in earthquake scenarios based on realistic...journal article 2022
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Kisa, Mehmet (author)Gas extractions are responsible for mostly all induced earthquakes in the Groningen area and this leads to damage of houses and buildings and issues regarding safety. Current strengthening measurements are mostly very visible. However, this can change by using the window frame as part of the structure, particularly interesting for Dutch houses...master thesis 2021
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Bracchi, Stefano (author), Graziotti, Francesco (author), Messali, F. (author), Penna, Andrea (author)In the last two decades, the province of Groningen, located in the North-East of the Netherlands, has been subjected to an increasing number of earthquakes induced by gas extractions. The existing building stock is mainly composed by unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings not conceived to resist seismic loads. The need of reducing the...conference paper 2021
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Chamarczuk, M. (author), Malinowski, M. (author), Draganov, D.S. (author), Grant, A. (author), Asgharzadeh, M. (author), Urosevic, M. (author)Here we analyse ambient noise (AN) data generated during drilling of exploration boreholes and recorded using a dense array deployed over one of the numerous shallow iron-ore mineralization targets in the Pilbara region (Western Australia). Drilling and drilling-related operations were reoccurring in a sequence as described by the drillers’...journal article 2021
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