Constraints on fracture distribution in the Los Humeros geothermal field from beamforming of ambient seismic noise

Kennedy, Heather; Löer, Katrin; Gilligan, Amy

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/se-13-1843-2022

Articles | Volume 13, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-13-1843-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-13-1843-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 12

Research article

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12 Dec 2022

Research article |

| 12 Dec 2022

Constraints on fracture distribution in the Los Humeros geothermal field from beamforming of ambient seismic noise

Heather Kennedy, Katrin Löer, and Amy Gilligan

Data sets

Dataset of the 6G seismic network at Los Humeros, 2017-2018 (https://geofon.gfzpotsdam.de/doi/network/6G/2017) Tania Toledo, Emmanuel Gaucher, Malte Metz, Marco Calò, Angel Figueroa, Joel Angulo, Philippe Jousset, Katrin Kieling and Erik Saenger https://doi.org/10.14470/1T7562235078

Model code and software

Synthetic_Wavefield Katrin Löer and Heather Kennedy https://github.com/HeatherKennedy21/Synthetic_Histograms

Short summary

The energy transition is an important topic for benefiting the future; thus renewable energy is required to reach net-zero carbon emission goals. Geothermal energy, heat from the ground, can be used in this transition. Therefore, geothermal fields need to be characterized as much as possible to allow for increased productivity within these fields. This study involves and looks at potential fractures within a geothermal field at depth to help increase the overall understanding of this field.