期刊
MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY
卷 68, 期 -, 页码 1-17出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2015.08.023
关键词
Earthquake; Fracking; Petroleum; Induced; Shale gas; Triggering; Unconventional
资金
- Natural Environment Research Council (UK)
- Total
- Shell
- Chevron
- GDF Suez
- Centrica
- Ineos
We review the distribution, timing and probable causes of 8000 onshore UK seismic events between the years 1970-2012. Of 1769 onshore seismic events with local magnitudes (M-L) >= 1.5, we estimate at least similar to 21% of these have an anthropogenic origin, at least similar to 40% were natural and similar to 39% have an undetermined, anthropogenic or natural origin. The majority of the anthropogenic related earthquakes were caused by coal mining and the decline in their numbers from the 1980s to the 2000s was concurrent with a decline in UK coal production. To date, two earthquakes with M-L >= 1.5 have been caused by hydraulic fracturing. We have a high level of confidence that the mean number of anthropogenic related earthquakes (M-L >= 1.5) per year onshore in the UK since 1999 is at least three with an annual range of between zero and eight If we assumed that 50% of the undetermined events had an anthropogenic origin the mean per year increases to twelve. Although there are inherent uncertainties in assigning an anthropogenic versus natural cause for historical earthquakes, these values provide a baseline for the UK, the first of its kind for any nation state, in advance of the presently planned shale gas and oil exploitation. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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