Microseismic moment tensors: A path to understanding frac growth

Leading Edge (Tulsa, OK)

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 320-324

  Baig, Adam ^a   Urbancic, Ted ^a  

^a Engineering Seismology Group   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE; SEISMOLOGY;

EVENT LOCATION; FAILURE PLANE; FRACTURE GROWTH; FRACTURE TREATMENT; FRACTURE ZONE; FRACTURING PROCESS; MOMENT TENSORS;

MICROSEISMIC MONITORING;

CENTROID MOMENT TENSOR; DETECTION METHOD; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; FAULT PLANE; FRACTURE GEOMETRY; FRACTURE ZONE; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBON;

EID: 77954041764     PISSN: 1070485X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3353729     Document Type: Article

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