Use of microseismicity for determining the structure of the fracture network of large-scale porous media

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Tafti, Tayeb A ^a   Sahimi, Muhammad ^a   Aminzadeh, Fred ^a   Sammis, Charles G ^b  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK SEQUENCE; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; GEOTHERMAL RESERVOIR; GEYSERS GEOTHERMAL FIELDS; LOCAL STRESS CONCENTRATION; MICROSEISMIC EVENTS; TECTONIC SEISMICITY; THERMAL CONTRACTION;

DIGITAL STORAGE; EARTHQUAKES; FAULTING; FRACTAL DIMENSION; FRACTURE; GEOTHERMAL FIELDS; GEYSERS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); POROUS MATERIALS; STRESS CONCENTRATION;

WATER INJECTION;

EID: 84875856264     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.87.032152     Document Type: Article

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