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Earthquakes induced by mining, oil and gas exploitation, reservoir impoundment and fluid injection at depth are studied intensly by both engineers, concerned with mitigating seismic hazard, and earth scientists atempting to interpret nature's response to the perturbations of mankind. In some cases, for example, deep-level mining in hard rock, the local crustal environment is disturbed so grossly that a high level of seismicity is induced in an otherwise a seismic rock mass. Understanding the mechanisms of these mining-induced earthquakes and their attendant ground motion is of critical improtance because ore production often takes place within the seismic source. In contrast, the seismicity induced by hydrocarbon exploitation and reservoir impoundment appears to be a consequence of quite subtle, often poorly underrstood, perturbations to the crustal environment, but, because the regions involved tend to be extensive, sometimes including the entire upper crust, both the maximum magnitude and the seismic hazard can be the same as for major tectonic earthquakes. This collection of 22 papers, stemming from the Workshop on Innduced Seismicity held in Santa Fe, New Mexico in June 1992, as part of the 33rd US Symposium on Rock Mechanics, provides an indication of recent developments, the current state of the art and some of the outstanding challenges, associated with understanding the causes and effects of induced earthquakes.

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