Stress inversion for Hydraulic Fracturing Induced Seismicity

PreviousNext No Access2017 Workshop: Microseismic Technologies and Applications, Hefei, China, 4-6 June 2017Stress inversion for Hydraulic Fracturing Induced SeismicityAuthors: Chuntao Liang*Yangyang YuXuben WangCheng YinFurong WuChuntao Liang*Key Laboratory of Earth Exploration and Information Technology of Ministry of Education (Chengdu University of Technology), Chengdu, ChinaSearch for more papers by this author, Yangyang YuKey Laboratory of Earth Exploration and Information Technology of Ministry of Education (Chengdu University of Technology), Chengdu, ChinaSearch for more papers by this author, Xuben WangKey Laboratory of Earth Exploration and Information Technology of Ministry of Education (Chengdu University of Technology), Chengdu, ChinaSearch for more papers by this author, Cheng YinCNPC Chuanqing Drilling Engineering Company, Chengdu, ChinaSearch for more papers by this author, and Furong WuCNPC Chuanqing Drilling Engineering Company, Chengdu, ChinaSearch for more papers by this authorhttps://doi.org/10.1190/Microseismic2017-051 SectionsAboutPDF/ePub ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail Abstract Liang et al (2016) proposed a joint inversion method to scan seismic location and focal mechanism together for events with signal-noise-ratio (SNR) far less than 1.0. As a result, the number of earthquakes with determined focal mechanism has been greatly increased. With the availability of those information, the maximum compressional stress may be extracted to show a stress variation in a finer scale. This method is applied to a hydraulic-fracturing Keywords: induced seismicity, microseismic, SNR, earthquake, inversionPermalink: https://doi.org/10.1190/Microseismic2017-051FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails 2017 Workshop: Microseismic Technologies and Applications, Hefei, China, 4-6 June 2017ISSN (online):2159-6832Copyright: 2017 Pages: 213 publication data© 2017 Published in electronic format with permission by the Society of Exploration GeophysicistsPublisher:Society of Exploration Geophysicists HistoryPublished Online: 12 Jul 2017 CITATION INFORMATION Chuntao Liang*, Yangyang Yu, Xuben Wang, Cheng Yin, and Furong Wu, (2017), "Stress inversion for Hydraulic Fracturing Induced Seismicity," SEG Global Meeting Abstracts : 198-200. https://doi.org/10.1190/Microseismic2017-051 Plain-Language Summary Keywordsinduced seismicitymicroseismicSNRearthquakeinversionPDF DownloadLoading ...