Hydraulic fracturing and the Crooked Lake Sequences: Insights gleaned from regional seismic networks

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2750-2758

  Schultz, Ryan ^a   Stern, Virginia ^a   Novakovic, Mark ^b   Atkinson, Gail ^b   Gu, Yu Jeffrey ^c  

^a ALBERTA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

hydraulic fracturing; induced seismicity

Indexed keywords

HORIZONTAL WELLS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; LAKES; SEISMOLOGY; WELL STIMULATION;

ALBERTA , CANADA; CROSS CORRELATIONS; DOUBLE-DIFFERENCE TECHNIQUE; FIRST ORDER; FRACTURING OPERATIONS; INDUCED SEISMICITY; SEISMIC NETWORKS; TEMPORAL CORRELATIONS;

EARTHQUAKES;

ALGORITHM; CORRELATION; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; REGIONAL GEOLOGY; REGIONAL PATTERN;

ALBERTA; ANTARCTICA; CANADA; CROOKED LAKE; EAST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84929517356     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063455     Document Type: Article

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