microearthquake


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microearthquake

(ˌmaɪkrəʊˈɜːθˌkweɪk)
n
(Geological Science) a mild earth tremor that is usually of a value between 0 and 3 on the Richter scale
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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.
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Stewart, Principles and Applications of Microearthquake Networks, Academic Press, 1981.
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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
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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
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The differences in the detectability of perforation shots and microseismic events in the surface monitoring: the attenuation effect
Microearthquake seismicity and fault plane solutions around the Nekor strike-slip fault, Moroco.
Terremoto de cariaco del 9 de Julio de 1997: evaluacion del parametro Vp/Vs
Fehler: Detailed joint structure in a geothermal reservoir from studies of induced microearthquake clusters, J.
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It shows the relationship between microearthquake locations beneath the MAR median valley and a volume of lower-than-normal seismic velocities.
Marine seismology
2008, Post 2000-swarm microearthquake activity in the principal focal zone of West Bohemia/Vogtland: space-time distribution and waveform similarity analysis.
Groundwater level variations in the seismically active region of western Bohemia in the years 2005-2010
Considering that during the time period from January 2004 to August 2008 the number of active seismic stations operated by IGN was changing, the possibility in microearthquake locations was adequate to this situation.
Contribution of the Institute of Geonics of the ASCR Ostrava to seismological monitoring in Silesia and northern Moravia

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