Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

Magnitude and nucleation time of the 2017 Pohang Earthquake point to its predictable artificial triggering

  • Serge A. Shapiro,
  • Kwang-Hee Kim,
  • Jin-Han Ree

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26679-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Here, authors find scaling of maximum magnitudes of earthquakes triggered by underground fluid injections with logarithmic event-occurrence times. This also applies to the Pohang Earthquake, the high probability of which was predictable using an approach based on monitoring of the Seismogenic Index.