The Dallas-Fort Worth earthquake sequence: October 2008 through May 2009

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 327-340

  Frohlich, Cliff ^a   Hayward, Chris ^b   Stump, Brian ^b   Potter, Eric ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRINE DISPOSAL; DEPTH 4; EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCES; FLOWBACK; FLUID INJECTIONS; HIGH QUALITY; HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKES; INDUCED SEISMICITY; INSITU STRESS; LOCAL NETWORKS; NORMAL FAULTS; RELATIVE LOCATION; THREE-COMPONENT; VERTICAL DIMENSIONS;

ASSOCIATED GAS; BRINES; FRACTURING FLUIDS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; NATURAL GAS WELL PRODUCTION;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; FLUID INJECTION; INDUCED SEISMICITY; NORMAL FAULT; SEISMOGRAM;

DALLAS; FORT WORTH; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79251647530     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120100131     Document Type: Article

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