Managing induced seismicity in GeoEnergy applications: Status and outlook
Event details
| Date | 20.05.2016 |
| Hour | 12:15 › 13:15 |
| Speaker | Prof. Dr. Stefan Wiemer, Swiss Seismological Service, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Induced seismicity is posing an increasing challenge to GeoEnergy applications around the globe, with a substantial economical and societal impact. While in some applications, induced earthquakes are a nuisance and potential seismic risk, in others they are actually a much needed tool to create and optimize underground reservoirs. The art of balancing 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 implications for future GeoEnergy projects in Switzerland.
Bio : Prof. Dr. Stefan Wiemer is the chair of seismology at the department of Earth Science, ETH Zurich, and the director of the Swiss Seismological Service (SED, www.seismo.ethz.ch). Born in 1967 in Germany, he graduated from the Ruhr University in Bochum in 1992 and earned his PhD in geophysics from the University of Alaska in Fairbanks in 1996. In 1997, he was awarded a fellowship by the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and moved to Tsukuba, Japan. In 1999, he moved to the SED as a research associate, where he initiated and led research groups on statistical seismology and induced seismicity. He was promoted to titular professor in 2007 and appointed as a full professor and SED director in 2013. His expertise and research interests include probabilistic seismic hazard and risk assessment, time-dependent processes, earthquake predictability and operational earthquake forecasting, earthquake early warning and induced seismicity related to GeoEnergy applications.
Bio : Prof. Dr. Stefan Wiemer is the chair of seismology at the department of Earth Science, ETH Zurich, and the director of the Swiss Seismological Service (SED, www.seismo.ethz.ch). Born in 1967 in Germany, he graduated from the Ruhr University in Bochum in 1992 and earned his PhD in geophysics from the University of Alaska in Fairbanks in 1996. In 1997, he was awarded a fellowship by the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and moved to Tsukuba, Japan. In 1999, he moved to the SED as a research associate, where he initiated and led research groups on statistical seismology and induced seismicity. He was promoted to titular professor in 2007 and appointed as a full professor and SED director in 2013. His expertise and research interests include probabilistic seismic hazard and risk assessment, time-dependent processes, earthquake predictability and operational earthquake forecasting, earthquake early warning and induced seismicity related to GeoEnergy applications.
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Organizer
- Prof. Dr Brice Lecampion
Contact
- Prof. Dr Brice Lecampion & Prof. Dr Katrin Beyer