Fault “Corrosion” by Fluid Injection: A Potential Cause of the November 2017 MW 5.5 Korean Earthquake

The November 2017 MW 5.5 Pohang earthquake is one of the largest and most damaging seismic events to have occurred in the Korean peninsula over the last century. Its close proximity to an Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS) site, where hydraulic injection into granite had taken place over the previous...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rob Westaway, Neil M. Burnside
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi-Wiley 2019-01-01
Series:Geofluids
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/1280721