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Interevent-time distribution and aftershock frequency in non-stationary induced seismicity

Richard Post
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Matthias Michels
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Jean Paul Ampuero
Thibault Candela
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Peter Fokker
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Jan-Diederik van Wees
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Remco Hofstad
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Edwin Heuvel
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Abstract The initial footprint of an earthquake can be extended considerably by triggering of clustered aftershocks. Such earthquake–earthquake interactions have been studied extensively for data-rich, stationary natural seismicity. Induced seismicity, however, is intrinsically inhomogeneous in time and space and may have a limited catalog of events; this may hamper the distinction between human-induced background events and triggered aftershocks. Here we introduce a novel Gamma Accelerated-Failure-Time model for efficiently analyzing interevent-time distributions in such cases. It addresses the spatiotemporal variation and quantifies, per event, the probability of each event to have been triggered. Distentangling the obscuring aftershocks from the background events is a crucial step to better understand the causal relationship between operational parameters and non-stationary induced seismicity. Applied to the Groningen gas field in the North of the Netherlands, our model elucidates geological and operational drivers of seismicity and has been used to test for aftershock triggering. We find that the hazard rate in Groningen is indeed enhanced after each event and conclude that aftershock triggering cannot be ignored. In particular we find that the non-stationary interevent-time distribution is well described by our Gamma model. This model suggests that 27.0(± 8.5)% of the recorded events in the Groningen field can be attributed to triggering.
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Richard Post, Matthias Michels, Jean Paul Ampuero, Thibault Candela, Peter Fokker, et al.. Interevent-time distribution and aftershock frequency in non-stationary induced seismicity. Scientific Reports, 2021, 11 (1), pp.3540. ⟨10.1038/s41598-021-82803-2⟩. ⟨hal-03578654⟩
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