Induced seismicity in geologic carbon storage

Vilarrasa, Víctor; Carrera, Jesus; Olivella, Sebastià; Rutqvist, Jonny; Laloui, Lyesse

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-871-2019

Articles | Volume 10, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-871-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-871-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 3

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19 Jun 2019

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Induced seismicity in geologic carbon storage

Víctor Vilarrasa, Jesus Carrera, Sebastià Olivella, Jonny Rutqvist, and Lyesse Laloui

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Final revised paper (published on 19 Jun 2019)
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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 05 Feb 2019
- AC1: 'Response to referee1, paper Solid Earth', Victor Vilarrasa, 12 Feb 2019
RC2: 'Lacking in new data and contributions, and filled with citations and unsupported generic comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 12 Mar 2019
- AC2: 'Response to Referee 2', Victor Vilarrasa, 29 Mar 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Victor Vilarrasa on behalf of the Authors (29 Apr 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (06 May 2019) by Florian Fusseis

AR by Victor Vilarrasa on behalf of the Authors (09 May 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (19 May 2019) by Florian Fusseis

ED: Publish as is (20 May 2019) by Federico Rossetti (Executive editor)

AR by Victor Vilarrasa on behalf of the Authors (27 May 2019) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

To meet the goal of the Paris Agreement to limit temperature increase below 2 ºC, geologic carbon storage (GCS) will be necessary at the gigatonne scale. But to successfully deploy GCS, seismicity induced by CO₂ injection should be controlled and maintained below a threshold that does not generate nuisances to the population. We conclude that felt induced seismicity can be minimized provided that a proper site characterization, monitoring and pressure management are performed.