This course will give an introduction to the world of earthquakes induced by fluid injection or other human activity in a variety of settings, including enhanced geothermal systems, mining environments, reservoir impoundment, and injection related environments. The course will start with an introduction to induced earthquakes, and will use the current scientific literature explore the properties of induced earthquakes, the relationship to geological structures and lithology, as well as the proposed mechanisms as related to pore pressure evolution and poroelastic stress transfer. Class meetings will be weekly meetings for 1.5 hours consisting of a roughly 30-minute introduction to the weekly topic, followed by a 1-hour discussion of the weekly reading.
- Kursleiter/in: Rebecca Maria Harrington
- Kursleiter/in: Gianina Elisa Meneses Provoste