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Keeping Texas citizens informed about earthquake activity helps mitigate and reduce effects of future earthquakes through improved knowledge and preparation. Please click on the map below to see monitoring-station locations and earthquake events.
Faulting occurred in Central Texas millions of years ago, when the coastal plains to the east bent downward while the more stable central Texas interior of the Llano Uplift remained relatively stable. The Balcones Escarpment and the west Austin Hill Country are the result of this fault episode.
Researchers have mapped more than 250 potentially earthquake-causing underground fault lines stretching across 1,800 miles in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in North Texas. And, they say, they are just as likely to cause earthquakes as previous faults that have done so.
Map of TexNet permanent and portable stations, along with TexNet-supported SMU stations and non-TexNet stations used in detection and analysis of earthquakes by TexNet staff. Click map to view larger.
A recent study has investigated the concealed seismogenic structures in the Snyder area using three main approaches: (1) relocated and delineated seismicity, (2) performed waveform moment tensor inversion to determine earthquakes’ source mechanisms, as well as (3) conducted stress inversion to assess the stress state.
Risk analysis of the individual clusters of seismicity shows that both injection type (e.g., wastewater disposal, hydraulic fracturing) and location within the basin are important factors for determining regions of statistically unexpected earthquakes.
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Given that earthquakes occur in a preexisting fault system, induced seismicity has allowed us to study and reveal the hidden seismotectonic characteristics that otherwise would not have been discovered for an aseismic tectonic regime like the Midland Basin.
University of Texas at Austin
president of geology and geophysics at XTO Energy, revealed a map of subsurface shale with fault lines in North Texas to the Texas Railroad Commission. The fault lines on the map slant north to south across Dallas, Tarrant and neighboring counties, and they bear