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SUBMITTER: Albano M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5428219 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Albano Matteo M Barba Salvatore S Tarabusi Gabriele G Saroli Michele M Stramondo Salvatore S
Scientific reports 20170321 1
The potential for oilfield activities to trigger earthquakes in seismogenic areas has been hotly debated. Our model compares the stress changes from remote water injection and a natural earthquake, both of which occurred in northern Italy in recent years, and their potential effects on a nearby Mw 5.9 earthquake that occurred in 2012. First, we calculate the Coulomb stress from 20 years of fluid injection in a nearby oilfield by using a poroelastic model. Then, we compute the stress changes for ...[more]