microearthquake

(ˌmaɪkrəʊˈɜːθˌkweɪk)

(Geological Science) a mild earth tremor that is usually of a value between 0 and 3 on the Richter scale

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The magnitude 1.5 quake in Flintshire, which was considered a "microearthquake", took place just after 10pm on Friday, according to The British Geological Survey [BGS].

Region hit by earthquake for second time in three weeks

Feher, "Induced microearthquake patterns in hydrocarbon and geothermal reservoirs: six case studies," Pure and Applied Geophysics, vol.

Physical Modeling of Displacement and Failure Monitoring of Underground Roadway in Horizontal Strata

Cladouhos, "Reservoir permeability mapping using microearthquake data," Geothermics, vol.

Evolution of Friction and Permeability in a Propped Fracture under Shear

"If they can increase the likelihood of getting a productive well every time they drill, it would be huge," says Lawrence Hutchings, a Berkeley Lab microearthquake imaging specialist who has worked in geothermal fields worldwide.

How California plans to make geothermal more economically feasible: California energy commission funds two geothermal research projects

Taking the 1[0.sup.4] J energy level of microearthquake during the track roadway excavation in Panel 402103 as the study object, the relevant parameters can be approximately obtained (Table 3), based on the statistical results from in situ measurements and laboratory tests [28, 29].

Numerical Investigation of Damage Risks of Roadway Surrounding Rocks under Oblique Incident Dynamic Loads

Lindblom, Microearthquake study of end-glacial faults in northern Sweden [Licentiate thesis], Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, 2011.

Numerical Analyses of Earthquake Induced Liquefaction and Deformation Behaviour of an Upstream Tailings Dam

Principles and Aplications of Microearthquake Networks.

Estudio de las dimensiones de la zona de ruptura ocasionada por el terremoto de Cariaco de 1997

Gendzwill, "Microearthquake location: a nonlinear approach that makes use of a simplex stepping procedure," Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, vol.

Two-Dimensional Far Field Source Locating Method with Nonprior Velocity

McEvilly T V and Majer E L (1982) ASP: An automated seismic processor for microearthquake networks Bulletin of Seismological Society of America 72 303-325

A semi-automatic approach to identify first arrival time: the cross-correlation technique (CCT)

Tectonics of the Central Zagros (Iran) deduced from microearthquake seismicity.

Pattern of structural geology underground in eastern of north DEZFOL embayment

GPS and microearthquake data suggest that the plate boundary lies under the land surface in northern Hokkaido, although it is difficult to trace the plate boundary.

Estimation of crustal structure in Horonobe area, Hokkaido, Japan, using multiplet-clustering analysis

McCann W.R., "Microearthquake data elucidate details of Caribbean subduction zone", Seism.Res.Letters, 73(1):25-32, 2002.