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Sharp increase in central Oklahoma seismicity since 2008 induced by massive wastewater injection

Overview of attention for article published in Science, July 2014
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Title
Sharp increase in central Oklahoma seismicity since 2008 induced by massive wastewater injection
Published in
Science, July 2014
DOI 10.1126/science.1255802
Pubmed ID
Authors

K M Keranen, M Weingarten, G A Abers, B A Bekins, S Ge

Abstract

Unconventional oil and gas production provides a rapidly growing energy source; however, high-production states in the United States, such as Oklahoma, face sharply rising numbers of earthquakes. Subsurface pressure data required to unequivocally link earthquakes to wastewater injection are rarely accessible. Here we use seismicity and hydrogeological models to show that fluid migration from high-rate disposal wells in Oklahoma is potentially responsible for the largest swarm. Earthquake hypocenters occur within disposal formations and upper basement, between 2- and 5-kilometer depth. The modeled fluid pressure perturbation propagates throughout the same depth range and tracks earthquakes to distances of 35 kilometers, with a triggering threshold of ~0.07 megapascals. Although thousands of disposal wells operate aseismically, four of the highest-rate wells are capable of inducing 20% of 2008 to 2013 central U.S. seismicity.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 7 2%
Canada 3 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
China 1 <1%
Unknown 360 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 106 28%
Researcher 58 16%
Student > Master 46 12%
Student > Bachelor 23 6%
Professor 22 6%
Other 63 17%
Unknown 56 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Earth and Planetary Sciences 175 47%
Engineering 32 9%
Environmental Science 31 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 3%
Physics and Astronomy 8 2%
Other 31 8%
Unknown 86 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 697. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 February 2024.
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#29,984
of 25,546,214 outputs
Outputs from Science
#1,310
of 83,106 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#161
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Outputs of similar age from Science
#12
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