Articles | Volume 13, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-13-301-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-13-301-2022
Research article
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02 Feb 2022
Research article |  | 02 Feb 2022

Multi-disciplinary characterizations of the BedrettoLab – a new underground geoscience research facility

Xiaodong Ma, Marian Hertrich, Florian Amann, Kai Bröker, Nima Gholizadeh Doonechaly, Valentin Gischig, Rebecca Hochreutener, Philipp Kästli, Hannes Krietsch, Michèle Marti, Barbara Nägeli, Morteza Nejati, Anne Obermann, Katrin Plenkers, Antonio P. Rinaldi, Alexis Shakas, Linus Villiger, Quinn Wenning, Alba Zappone, Falko Bethmann, Raymi Castilla, Francisco Seberto, Peter Meier, Thomas Driesner, Simon Loew, Hansruedi Maurer, Martin O. Saar, Stefan Wiemer, and Domenico Giardini

Data sets

Data Collection for the Bedretto Reservoir Project (BRP) BedrettoLab Team https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000527856

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Short summary
Questions on issues such as anthropogenic earthquakes and deep geothermal energy developments require a better understanding of the fractured rock. Experiments conducted at reduced scales but with higher-resolution observations can shed some light. To this end, the BedrettoLab was recently established in an existing tunnel in Ticino, Switzerland, with preliminary efforts to characterize realistic rock mass behavior at the hectometer scale.