Publications

Journal Articles 

(most recent first)

• Haagenson, R., Rajaram, H. and Allen, J. (2020). A generalized poroelastic model using FEniCS with insights into the Noordbergum effect, Computers & Geosciences, 135, 2020.
• Tracy, A. and Javernick-Will, A. (2020). Credible Sources of Information Regarding Induced Seismicity, Sustainability. 12(6), 2308.
• Campbell, N. M., Leon-Corwin, M., Ritchie, L. A., & Vickery, J. (2020). Human-Induced Seismicity: Risk perceptions in the State of Oklahoma, The Extractive Industries and Society.
• Baird, Bridger W., Liel, Abbie B., and Chase, Robert E. (2020). Magnitude Thresholds and Spatial Footprints of Damage from Induced Earthquakes, Earthquake Spectra, In Press, 2020.
• Robert E. Chase, Abbie B. Liel, Nicolas Luco, and Bridger W. Baird. (2019). Seismic Loss and Damage in Light-frame Wood Buildings from Sequences of Induced Earthquakes, Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, In Press, 2019.
• Liu, Taojun, Nicolas Luco, and Abbie B. Liel. (2019). Increases in Life-Safety Risks from Induced Earthquakes in the Central United States, Earthquake Spectra, 35(2), 471-488.
• Barba-Sevilla, M., Baird, B. W., Liel, A. B., and Tiampo, K. F. (2018). Hazard Implications of the 2016 Mw 5.0 Cushing, OK Earthquake from a Joint Analaysis of Damage and InSAR Data, Remote Sensing, 10(11), 1715.
• Birdsell, D., S. Karra, and H. Rajaram (2018).  On the Representation of the Porosity-Pressure Relatioship in General Subsurface Flow Codes, Water Resources Researh, 54(2), 1382-1388. 
• Brown, M.R.M., S. Ge, A.F. Sheehan, and J.S. Nakai (2017). Evaluating the Effectiveness of Induced Seismicity Mitigation: Numerical Modeling of Wastewater Injection near Greeley, Colorado, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 122.
• Nakai, J.S., Weingarten M., Sheehan A.F., Bilek S.L. & Ge S. (2017). A Possible Causative Mechanism of Raton Basin, New Mexico and Colorado Earthquakes Using Recent Seismicity Patterns and Pore Pressure Modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 122. 
• Nakai, J.S., A.F. Sheehan, and S.L. Bilek (2017). Seismicity of the Rocky Mountains and Rio Grande Rift from the EarthScope Transportable Array and CREST temporary seismic networks, 2008–2010, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 122.
• White, I., T. Lui, N. Luco, A. Liel (2017). Considerations in Comparing the USGS Induced One-Year Seismicity Models with "Did you Feel It?" and Instrumental Data, 89(1), Seismological Research Letters, 127 – 137. 
• Yeck, W.L., A.F. Sheehan, H.M. Benz, M. Weingarten, J. Nakai (2016). Rapid Response, Monitoring, and Mitigation of Induced Seismicity near Greeley, Colorado, Seismological Research Letters, v. 86, no. 5. 
• McGarr, A., Bekins, B., Burkardt, N., Dewey, J., Earle, P., Ellsworth, W., Ge, S., Hickman, S., Holland, A., Majer, E., Rubinstein, J., Sheehan, A. (2015). Coping with Earthquakes Induced by Fluid Injection. Science: 1 347 (6224).

Conference Proceedings & Abstracts 

(most recent first)

• Chon, Enrique, (2019). Repeating Earthquakes and Shear Wave Anisotropy Measurements from an Induced Seismicity Case Study, Wattenberg Disposal Zone, 3rd Schatzalp Workshop on Induced Seismicity, Davos, Switzerland, March 5-8, 2019. Oral presentation.
• Ritchie, Liesel, (2019). Risk Perceptions of Human-Induced Seismicity: A Sociological Perspective, Mississippi State University's Social Science Research Center, Mississippi, MS
• Baird, B.W., Liel, A.B., Chase, R.E., (2019). Preliminary Magnitude and Distance Damage Thresholds for Light-Frame Wood Buildings in Induced Earthquakes, 13th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering, ICASP13, Seoul, South Korea, May 2019.
• Chon, E., and A. Sheehan, (2018). Repeating Earthquakes and Shear Wave Anisotropy Measurements from an Induced Seismicity Case Study, Wattenberg Disposal Zone, CO, American Geophysical Union, poster S33C-0606. Washington D.C., December 2018.
• Tiampo, KF, (2018). Characterizing Infrastructure Changes Using InSAR, GRSG Oil and Gas Remote Sensing Workshop, Boulder, CO, 2018
• Barba, M, Tiampo, KF, (2018). InSAR Time-Series Analysis of Induced Seismicity, in Weld County, Colorado, GRSG Oil and Gas Remote Sensing Workshop, Boulder, CO, 2018
• Tiampo, KF, (2019). InSAR Analysis of Infrastructure and Induced Seismicity, invited talk, Denver Geophysical Society, Denver, CO, July, 2018
• Tracy, A., Javernick-Will, A., (2018). Trust of Information Sources Regarding Oil and Gas Development and Induced Seismicity. Presentation. 24^th International Symposium on Society and Natural Resources, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 2018 
• Brown, M, Barba, M, Ge, S, Tiampo, KF, (2018). Calibration of Pore Pressure Models through the Integration of InSAR Results and Vertical Deformation Estimates, GSA Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, USA, 2018.
• Birdsell, D.T., Rajaram, H., & Karra, S. (2018). Code development for modeling induced seismicity with flow and mechanics using a discrete fracture network and matrix formulation with evolving hydraulic diffusivity. 52nd American Rock Mechanics Association Symposium. Seattle, WA.
• Chase R, Liel A, Luco N. (2018). Damage Accumulation for a Two-Story Wood Frame Building in Sequences of Induced Earthquakes. 11th National Conference in Earthquake Engineering, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA.
• Haagenson, R., Rajaram, H., Karra, S., & Allen, J (2018). Modeling Nonlinear Diffusion in Fractured Rock with Deformable Fractures and Applications to Injection Induced Seismicity. 52nd American Rock Mechanics Association Symposium. Seattle, WA.
• Tracy, A., Klucik, R., Javernick-Will, A., Poleacovschi, C. (2018). New Disasters in the Twittersphere: How Communities Utilize Social Media to Seek and Share Information in the Wake of Induced Seismicity. Proceedings of the 2018 Construction Research Congress, New Orleans, LA.
• Tracy, A. and Javernick-Will, A. (2018). Credibility of Information Sources for Induced Seismicity and Oil and Gas Development.  2018 Engineering Project Organizations Conference, Croatia.
• Vickery, Jamie, Campbell, Nnenia, and Liesel Ritchie (2018). Understanding Risk Perception and Uncertainty in the Context of Induced Seismicity: An Oklahoma Case Study. International Symposium on Society and Resource Management Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah. 
• Chase, Robert and Abbie B. Liel (2017). Potential for Damage to Brittle Structures in Induced Earthquakes, 16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering.  
• Liu, Taojun, Nicolas Luco, Abbie B. Liel, and Susan Hoover (2017). Building Collapse and Life Endangerment Risks from Induced Seismicity in the United States, 16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering. 
• Liu, Taojun, Nicolas Luco, Abbie B. Liel and Sanaz Rezaeian (2017). Stochastic Ground Motion Simulations for Assessment of Regional Losses from Induced Earthquakes, ICOSSAR, Vienna, 2017. 
• Tracy, A., Javernick-Will, A. and D. Baummer (2017). 'I’m not a Scientist’: Community Knowledge-Sharing during Uncertainty: Induced Seismicity and Hydraulic Fracturing. 2017 Engineering Project Organizations Conference, Stanford, CA.
• Barba, M., K. Tiampo, S. Samsonov, W. Feng. (2017). InSAR MSBAS Time-Series Analysis of Induced Seismicity in Colorado and Oklahoma.  Seismological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.
• Campbell, Nnenia, Vickery, Jamie, and Liesel Ritchie (2017). Making Sense of Uncertainty: Risk Communication in the Context of Induced Seismicity. Seismological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.
• Barba, M.,Tiampo, K.F., Samsonov, S., Feng, W. (2016) InSAR MSBAS Time-Series Analysis of 2016 M5.8 Pawnee Earthquake, AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
• Barba, M.,Tiampo, K.F.,Samsonov, S. (2016). InSAR MSBAS Time Series Analysis of Induced Seismicity in Colorado and Oklahoma, AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
• Barba, M.,Tiampo, K.F., (2016). Geodetic Analysis of Induced Seismicity in Colorado and Oklahoma,CIRES Rendezvous
• Ritchie, Liesel, Nnenia Campbell, and Jamie Vickery (2016). Risk and Opportunity: The Role of Context and Social Responses to Oil and Gas Development. Association for Humanist Sociology Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado.
• Birdsell, D., Karra, S., and Rajaram, H. (2016) On the Representation of Aquifer Compressibility in General Subsurface Flow Codes, AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 
• Rajaram, H., Birdsell, D., Lackey, G., Karra, S., Viswanathan, H.S., and Dempsey, D. (2015). Modeling Stuides to Constrain Fluid and Gas Migration Associated with Hydraulic Fracturing Operations, AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.

​Dissertations

(most recent first)

• Johnson, Eric G. "Effectiveness of Mitigation Strategies for Wastewater-Injection-Induced Seismicity." Master's thesis, University of Colorado at Boulder, May, 2020.
• Baird, Bridger W. "Quantifying the Onset of Damage for Light-Frame Wood Structures in Induced Earthquakes." Master's thesis, University of Colorado at Boulder, May, 2019. 
• Brown, Megan. "Mechanisms and Mitigation of Injection-Induced Earthquakes." PhD dissertation, University of Colorado at Boulder, April, 2019.
• Chase, Robert E. "Structural Response and Risk Considering Regional Ground Motion Characteristics." PhD dissertation, University of Colorado at Boulder, December, 2018. 

Posters

• White, Isabel, Taojun Liu, Nicolas Luco and Abbie B. Liel, Comparison between the 2016 USGS induced- seismicity hazard one-year forecast and the 2016 “Did You Feel It?” data archive, Seismological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, 2017.  
• White, Isabel, Taojun Liu, Nicolas Luco and Abbie B. Liel, Comparisons between the 2016 USGS induced- seismicity hazard model and “Did You Feel It", Southern California Earthquake Center Annual Meeting, 2016. ​

Other Products

• Induced Seismicity from Oil and Gas Wastewater Injection Dataset - This new dataset on LawAtlas.org identifies and displays key features of Class II Underground Injection Control (UIC) well law related to induced seismicity from seven states and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in effect through August 16, 2019.

Posters from our Advisory Board Meetings 

• Risk and Opportunity: Social Responses to Induced Seismicity in Colorado and Oklahoma
• Fragility of Residential Chimneys in Induced Earthquakes 
• Community Information Sharing and Induced Seismicity 
• Evaluating the Effectiveness of Induced Seismicity Mitigation: Numerical Modeling of Wastewater Injection near Greeley, Colorado
• A Possible Casuative Mechanisms of Raton Basin, New Mexico and Colorado Earthquakes using recent seismicity patterns and pore pressure modeling
• InSAR Time-Series Analysis of Induced Seismicity in Colorado
• Induced Earthquake Damage Assessment