It's a matter of size: Magnitude and moment estimates for microseismic data

Leading Edge (Tulsa, OK)

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 296-302

  Shemeta, Julie ^a   Anderson, Paul ^b  

^a MEQ Geo   (United States)

^b Apache Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; MICROSEISMIC MONITORING;

HYDRAULIC FRACTURE STIMULATION; MICROSEISMIC EVENTS; MICROSEISMIC MAPPING; MONITORING SURVEYS; NEAR SURFACES; SEISMIC MOMENT; SHEAR FAILURE; STIMULATION TREATMENTS;

SEISMOLOGY;

BOREHOLE; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC MOMENT; SIMULATION;

EID: 77954042239     PISSN: 1070485X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3353726     Document Type: Article

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