Induced seismicity in EGS reservoir: the creep route

Geothermal Energy

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Schmittbuhl, Jean ^a   Lengliné, Olivier ^a   Cornet, François ^a   Cuenot, Nicolas ^b   Genter, Albert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b GEIE   (France)

^c Now at Es Géothermie   (France)

Author keywords

Asperity pinning; Brittle creep; Fault asperities; Induced seismicity; Soultz sous For ts

Indexed keywords

CREEP; GEOTHERMAL FIELDS; SEISMOLOGY;

ASPERITY PINNING; BRITTLE CREEPS; DEFORMATION PROCESS; ENHANCED GEOTHERMAL SYSTEMS; HETEROGENEOUS INTERFACES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; SPACE TIME CLUSTERING; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES;

INDUCED SEISMICITY;

EID: 84937760017     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21959706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40517-014-0014-0     Document Type: Article

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