期刊
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH
卷 122, 期 10, 页码 8285-8304出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2017JB014535
关键词
induced seismicity; fluid injections; fractured zone; aseismic motions; meter-scale in situ experiments; hydromechanics
资金
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) through the HYDROSEIS project [ANR-13-JS06-0004-01]
- Total SA through the HPMS-Ca project
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-13-JS06-0004] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
An increase in fluid pressure in faults can trigger seismicity and large aseismic motions. Understanding how fluid and faults interact is an essential goal for seismic hazard and reservoir monitoring, but this key relation remains unclear. We developed an in situ experiment of fluid injections at a 10meter scale. Water was injected at high pressure in different geological structures inside a fault damaged zone, in limestone at 280m depth in the Low Noise Underground Laboratory (France). Induced seismicity, as well as strains, pressure, and flow rate, was continuously monitored during the injections. Although nonreversible deformations related to fracture reactivations were observed for all injections, only a few tests generated seismicity. Events are characterized by a 0.5-to-4kHz content and a small magnitude (approximately -3.5). They are located within 1.5m accuracy between 1 and 12m from the injections. Comparing strain measurements and seismicity shows that more than 96% of the deformation is aseismic. The seismic moment is also small compared to the one expected from the injected volume. Moreover, a dual seismic behavior is observed as (1) the spatiotemporal distribution of some cluster of events is clearly independent from the fluid diffusion (2) while a diffusion-type pattern can be observed for some others clusters. The seismicity might therefore appear as an indirect effect to the fluid pressure, driven by aseismic motion and related stress perturbation transferred through failure.
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