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SUMMARY:Managing induced seismicity in GeoEnergy applications: Status and 
 outlook
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Dr. Stefan Wiemer\, Swiss Seismological Service\, ETH Zu
 rich\, Switzerland\nInduced seismicity is posing an increasing challenge t
 o GeoEnergy applications around the globe\, with a substantial economical 
 and societal impact.  While in some applications\, induced earthquakes ar
 e a nuisance and potential seismic risk\, in others they are actually a mu
 ch needed tool to create and optimize underground reservoirs. The art of b
 alancing economic output\, seismic safety and societal acceptance requires
  more advanced tools for monitoring and modeling than available today. In 
 this presentation\, I will summarize the major challenges we are facing\, 
 and report on the research and development efforts ongoing at SED and ETH 
 to improve our understanding of earthquake processes\, and of the ability 
 to reliably forecast induced seismicity. Finally\, I will discuss implicat
 ions for future GeoEnergy projects in Switzerland.\nBio : Prof. Dr. Stefan
  Wiemer is the chair of seismology at the department of Earth Science\, ET
 H Zurich\, and the director of the Swiss Seismological Service (SED\, www.
 seismo.ethz.ch). Born in 1967 in Germany\, he graduated from the Ruhr Univ
 ersity in Bochum in 1992 and earned his PhD in geophysics from the Univers
 ity of Alaska in Fairbanks in 1996. In 1997\, he was awarded a fellowship 
 by the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and moved to Tsukuba\, Jap
 an. In 1999\, he moved to the SED as a research associate\, where he initi
 ated and led research groups on statistical seismology and induced seismic
 ity. He was promoted to titular professor in 2007 and appointed as a full 
 professor and SED director in 2013. His expertise and research interests i
 nclude probabilistic seismic hazard and risk assessment\, time-dependent p
 rocesses\, earthquake predictability and operational earthquake forecastin
 g\, earthquake early warning and induced seismicity related to GeoEnergy a
 pplications.
LOCATION:GC B3 30 http://plan.epfl.ch/?lang=fr&room=GCB330
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