Induced Seismic Events

by Georg Kowalle and Peter Knoll

Induced seismic events are of high scientific and economic significance. They are the result of human activities interacting with regional and local tectonics, changing the local crustal stress state by mining, extraction of rock masses, injection of fluids into the rock massif, and by changing the surface loading and pore pressure state near large reservoirs. Within Europe the study of induced seismic events has a long tradition and international...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3764354542
• ISBN13: 9783764354541
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Birkhauser
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"