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Seismicity and fault aseismic deformation caused by fluid injection in decametric in-situ experiments

Louis de Barros
Yves Guglielmi
Diane Rivet
Frédéric Cappa
Laure Duboeuf
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Seismicity induced by fluid perturbations became an important societal concern since felt earthquakes (Mw up to 6) occurred after anthropogenic activities. In order to mitigate the risks associated with undesired seismicity, as well as to be able to use the micro-seismicity as a probe for in-depth investigation of fluid-driven processes, it is of crucial importance to understand the links between seismicity, fluid pressure and flow. We have developed a series of in-situ, decameter-scale experiments of fault zone reactivation by controlled fluid injection, in order to improve the near-source geophysical and hydromechanical observations. The deployed geophysical monitoring close to the injection allows one to cover the full frequency range of the fault responses from the static deformation to the very high-frequency seismic emissions (up to 4 kHz). Here, we focus on the microseismicity (Mw ∼ –4 to –3) recorded during two fluid injection experiments in low-permeable shale and highly-fractured limestone formations. In both experiments, the spatio-temporal distribution of the seismic events, the energy balance, and the seismic velocity changes of the fractured medium show that most of the deformation does not actually emit seismic signals. The induced deformation is mainly aseismic. Based on these high-resolution multiparametric observations in the near-field, we therefore proposed a new model for injection-induced seismicity: the seismicity is not directly induced by the increasing fluid pressure, but it is rather triggered by the stress perturbations transferred from the aseismic motion caused by the injection.
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hal-02117944 , version 1 (28-08-2020)

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Louis de Barros, Yves Guglielmi, Diane Rivet, Frédéric Cappa, Laure Duboeuf. Seismicity and fault aseismic deformation caused by fluid injection in decametric in-situ experiments. Comptes Rendus Géoscience, 2018, 350 (8), pp.464-475. ⟨10.1016/j.crte.2018.08.002⟩. ⟨hal-02117944⟩
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