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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-15-2201-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-15-2201-2015
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Earthquakes and depleted gas reservoirs: which comes first?

M. Mucciarelli, F. Donda, and G. Valensise

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While the debate is on the possibility that the 2012 Emilia quakes could have been triggered by human activity, we studied the inverse relationship between hydrocarbon and seismicity. Overlapping a data set of gas and oil wells with a database of seismic sources, we found that only 1/19 wells falling on the largest faults is currently productive, while the highest ratio of productive wells is found outside the seismogenic sources. In general, productive gas wells are anti-correlated with faults.
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