Induced seismicity: a geo-ecological problem of a technogenic nature

Tashlykova Tatiana G. (), Ryashchenko Tamara G., Dolgaya Anna A. and Lukyanova Elena A.
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Tashlykova Tatiana G.: Institute of Earth Crust, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Lermontova Str. 128, Irkutsk, Russia
Ryashchenko Tamara G.: Institute of Earth Crust, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Lermontova Str. 128, Irkutsk, Russia
Dolgaya Anna A.: Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 9 Boulevard Piip, 683006, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia
Lukyanova Elena A.: Irkutsk State Technical University, Lermontov Str. 83, Irkutsk, Russia

Environmental & Socio-economic Studies, 2016, vol. 4, issue 3, 21-25

Abstract: A debatable problem of the display of induced seismicity and its causes during the construction of reservoirs (Reservoir Induced Seismicity - RIS) is considered on the basis of an analysis of various publications. This paper describes the history of the evolution of ideas about the possibility of the activation of seismic events in the zones of influence of artificial reservoirs and examples of such activation in aseismic areas, which is a medium geological response to technogenic interference (e.g. Shivajisagar reservoir in West India, Mead reservoir in the USA, Danjiangkou Reservoir in central China, Nurek reservoir in Central Asia, Chirkey reservoir in Dagestan and other). The problem and reasons of induced seismicity (RIS) are debatable. however, published examples demonstrate the existence of this process. For reservoirs with different amounts of water RIS is an inseparable component of the natural and man-made geological process. The world statistics knows cases of seismicity intensification in areas near small man-made reservoirs with low pressure levels (Belecha in former Yugoslavia, Marathon in Greece, Grandval in France). In addition, it was found that the number of local earthquakes increased after creating a cascade of three small water reservoirs (Studen Kladenets, Kardzhali and Ivaylovgrad) in the basin of The Arda river (Bulgaria). The RIS examples listed above allow us to think that it is not only the creation of large reservoirs that change (in some cases, intensifies) the local seismicity in the surrounding area. No reservoir, no matter what size it is, is insured from such geological process. At the present time there are more than 100 places in the world with displays of induced seismicity due to reservoir construction. In India there are up to eight reservoirs with these problems. Induced seismicity associated with the influence of man-made water reservoirs, causes a specific geo-ecological risks to the surrounding areas.

Keywords: induced seismicity; artificial water reservoir; earthquake (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1515/environ-2016-0014

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