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Research article
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14 Jan 2020
Research article |
| 14 Jan 2020
| 14 Jan 2020
Fault reactivation by gas injection at an underground gas storage off the east coast of Spain
Antonio Villaseñor
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera, CSIC, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
now at: Institute of Marine Sciences, CSIC, 08003 Barcelona,
Spain
Robert B. Herrmann
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Saint Louis University, St. Louis,
MO 63108, USA
Beatriz Gaite
Institute of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera, CSIC, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
now at: Instituto Geográfico Nacional, 28003 Madrid, Spain
Arantza Ugalde
Institute of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera, CSIC, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
now at: Institute of Marine Sciences, CSIC, 08003 Barcelona,
Spain
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Short summary
We present new earthquake focal depths and fault orientations for earthquakes that occurred in 2013 in the vicinity of an underground gas storage off the east coast of Spain. Our focal depths are in the range of 5–10 km, notably deeper than the depth of the gas injection (2 km). The obtained fault orientations also differ from the predominant faults at shallow depths. This suggests that the faults reactivated are deeper, previously unmapped faults occurring beneath the sedimentary layers.
We present new earthquake focal depths and fault orientations for earthquakes that occurred in...
