Exploiting energy and resources from the Earth’s subsurface is the development trend all over the world. These anthropogenic activities lead to underground stress perturbations, which may trigger hazardous events. Deep mining and tunneling may induce dynamic disasters such as fault slippage and rock burst, leading to serious casualties and economic losses. Engineering applications such as well drilling, fluid injection into the subsurface, and the development of deep underground space provide direct sources to seismic activities. It is imperative to minimize the risk of these disasters and even prevent their occurrences, which is crucial in the safe and efficient use of energy and resources exploitation. However, the physical mechanism of induced hazardous events has not been well understood.
Exploring characteristics of induced seismicity provides new insights to elucidate the role that geomechanics plays in triggering these hazardous events. As such, it is essential to extract useful information from data collected in both laboratory experiments and engineering practices by means of innovative experimental techniques, simulation methods, data mining, and geophysical methods. A variety of laboratory experiments have been carried out to understand the relationship between the local stress field, geomechanical properties of fractures, and induced seismicity. Ground pressure monitoring technologies such as microseismic monitoring has been applied in evaluating the risk associated with engineering applications. Efforts in integrating these technological means will help advance geomechanics and induced seismicity-related research that contributes to resolving challenging issues in the exploitation of underground energy and resources.
This Research Topic aims to provide a platform for new research and recent advances on geomechanics and induced seismicity in underground energy and resources exploitation. Submissions are welcome in the scope of geomechanics and geophysics including theoretical research, field observation, laboratory experiments, numerical simulation, as well as development of geophysical monitoring equipment and technology. Areas to be covered in this Research Topic may include but are not limited to:
• Geomechanical interpretation case studies
• Microseismic monitoring technology
• Deep mining and geothermal energy deployment
• Disaster prevention and control in underground engineering
• Rockmass response to various stress disturbances, and
• Induced seismicity
Exploiting energy and resources from the Earth’s subsurface is the development trend all over the world. These anthropogenic activities lead to underground stress perturbations, which may trigger hazardous events. Deep mining and tunneling may induce dynamic disasters such as fault slippage and rock burst, leading to serious casualties and economic losses. Engineering applications such as well drilling, fluid injection into the subsurface, and the development of deep underground space provide direct sources to seismic activities. It is imperative to minimize the risk of these disasters and even prevent their occurrences, which is crucial in the safe and efficient use of energy and resources exploitation. However, the physical mechanism of induced hazardous events has not been well understood.
Exploring characteristics of induced seismicity provides new insights to elucidate the role that geomechanics plays in triggering these hazardous events. As such, it is essential to extract useful information from data collected in both laboratory experiments and engineering practices by means of innovative experimental techniques, simulation methods, data mining, and geophysical methods. A variety of laboratory experiments have been carried out to understand the relationship between the local stress field, geomechanical properties of fractures, and induced seismicity. Ground pressure monitoring technologies such as microseismic monitoring has been applied in evaluating the risk associated with engineering applications. Efforts in integrating these technological means will help advance geomechanics and induced seismicity-related research that contributes to resolving challenging issues in the exploitation of underground energy and resources.
This Research Topic aims to provide a platform for new research and recent advances on geomechanics and induced seismicity in underground energy and resources exploitation. Submissions are welcome in the scope of geomechanics and geophysics including theoretical research, field observation, laboratory experiments, numerical simulation, as well as development of geophysical monitoring equipment and technology. Areas to be covered in this Research Topic may include but are not limited to:
• Geomechanical interpretation case studies
• Microseismic monitoring technology
• Deep mining and geothermal energy deployment
• Disaster prevention and control in underground engineering
• Rockmass response to various stress disturbances, and
• Induced seismicity
