Zemětřesení ve službách energetiky

Earthquake in energetic service by Jan Šílený and Tomáš Fischer

Methods of earthquake seismology help to enhance production in oil and gas industry and in exploitation of geothermal energy. In particular, mechanism of micro-earthquakes induced by injection of fluid into the wells during hydrofracture experiments allows detect the mode of fracturing and, thus, check the efficiency of the procedure to increase the permeability of the rock-mass.