How does fault aperture evolution affect induced seismicity?

In this work, we compare three aperture models at Belgium’s VITO geothermal site: constant, stress-dependent, and stress- and slip-dependent.

Our results show that including both stress and slip effects gives a more conservative estimate of maximum earthquake magnitude, with computational costs comparable to the constant-aperture model.

Read the article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40517-026-00412-6

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