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To prevent earthquake triggering, pressure changes due to CO2 injection need to be limited

Vilarrasa and Carrera (1) dissent from our view (2) that pore pressure increases resulting from large-scale CO2 injection could potentially trigger earthquakes that would threaten long-term CO2 storage. Since our article appeared, the National Academy of Sciences (3) has expressed an even greater concern about large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS), that “the large net volumes of injected fluids, may have potential for inducing larger seismic events.”

Author(s)
Mark D. Zoback
Steven M. Gorelick
Journal Name
PNAS
Publication Date
August 3, 2015
DOI
10.1073/pnas.1508533112