Stress Drop Variations of Induced Earthquakes at the Dallas-Fort Worth
Airport, Texas
Abstract
Stress drops for injection-induced earthquakes near the Dallas-Fort
Worth International Airport in the Fort Worth Basin (FWB), Texas are
estimated. The mean stress drop for the Airport sequence is lower than
other FWB earthquake sequences. Airport earthquake stress drops increase
with radial distance from the injection point, but only over the first
1.5 km; estimates for more distant earthquakes are spatially
independent, consistent with other FWB sequences. The low stress drop
Airport events occurred shortly after the initiation of injection on a
fault extremely close to the well, and we suggest that here we uniquely
captured the initial low stress drops predicted by direct triggering of
earthquake via rapid pore pressure changes.