SCITS 2016 Fall Affiliates Meeting

The affiliate meetings are intended for the SCITS affiliate members and invited guests.  If you need access to the files below please contact Denise Baughman.

Agenda

Presentations

Tuesday, October 25

• Mark Zoback – Welcome, Review Agenda, SCITS publications and emerging projects
• Claudia Baroni – Update on membership, students, postdocs, etc.

Session 1 - Earthquakes and faults

• Martin Schoenball - Refined earthquake locations for Oklahoma and Southern Kansas illuminate the regional fault networks
• Rall Walsh – Identifying potentially active faults in Oklahoma, updated for Pawnee

Session 2 – Ground motions and earthquake magnitudes

• Greg Beroza, Yihe Huang and Bill Ellsworth - Stress Drops of Central and Eastern U.S. Earthquakes and Their Implications for Strong Ground Motion.
• Abhineet Gupta, Jack Baker - Observed ground motion amplitudes in Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas
• Sam Bydlon, Eric Dunham – Using Simulated Ground Motions to Constrain Near-Source Ground Motion Prediction Equations in Oklahoma/Kansas.
• Zack Spica, Greg Beroza, Nori Nakata and Xin Liu -Towards Ground Motion Prediction in Groningen Using Ambient Field Measurements.
• Nicholas Van der Elst (USGS, Pasadena) - Induced earthquake magnitudes are as large as (statistically) expected.

Session 3 – Stress, Pore Pressure and Hydraulic Fracturing

• Clara Yoon, Howard Zebker - In SAR Time Series Analysis Reveals an Absence of Injection-Induced Surface Deformation in Central Oklahoma.
• Bill Ellsworth - Surface uplift and time-dependent seismic hazard due to fluid injection in eastern Texas.
• Robert Skoumal (USGS, Menlo Park) - Hydraulic fracturing induced seismicity in Oklahoma.
• Jens Lund-Snee, Mark Zoback – State of stress in Texas: Implications for induced seismicity.
• Clara Yoon, Bill Ellsworth, and Greg Beroza - New Evidence for Earthquakes Induced by Hydraulic Fracturing and Wastewater Injection in Guy-Greenbrier, Arkansas.

Session 5 – Implications of Mandated SWD reductions in Oklahoma for Future Earthquakes

• Cornelius Langenbruch, Mark Zoback - How will induced seismicity in Oklahoma respond to decreased saltwater injection rates?
• Matthew Weingarten, Mark Zoback - Are we past peak pressure in Oklahoma?
• Cornelius Langenbrunch and Matthew Weingarten–Combining statistical and hydrologic models for Oklahoma seismicity

Wednesday October 26

9:15 – 9:30 Jack Norbeck, Roland Horne - Informing seismic hazard models with a physics-based earthquake and fluid flow simulator

Session 6 – New Projects

• Kevin McCormack - A new method for filling in gaps in U.S. stress maps with seismic data from USArray
• Jack Baker - Time-varying regional risk assessment
• Jens Lund-Snee - Stress field constraints on seismic hazard in the Fort Worth Basin: A new SCITS collaboration with CISR.
• Bill Ellsworth - Improving magnitude measurements in Oklahoma
• Greg Beroza - Testing earthquake forecast models