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A fault slip model to study earthquakes due to pore pressure perturbations

Geophysics 2021-08-04 v2

Abstract

The burgeoning need to sequester anthropogenic CO2_2 for climate mitigation and the need for energy sustenance leading upto enhanced geothermal energy production has made it incredibly critical to study potential earthquakes due to fluid activity in the subsurface. These earthquakes result from reactivation of faults in the subsurface due to pore pressure perturbations. In this work, we provide a framework to model fault slip due to pore pressure change leading upto quantifying the earthquake magnitude.

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@article{arxiv.2104.06257,
  title  = {A fault slip model to study earthquakes due to pore pressure perturbations},
  author = {Saumik Dana and Birendra Jha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.06257},
  year   = {2021}
}