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January 10, 2018 11:30 AM - 1 PM CST
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Westwood Country Club (3808 West 35th Street, Austin TX 78703)
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How to Make Earthquakes: The What, Where, How, and Who Cares of Injection-Induced Seismicity
Was that a man-made earthquake or a naturally occurring earthquake? Now, we can tell the difference.
Texas can now objectively answer that question because we have TexNet.
TexNet is the biggest, most widespread, most up-to-date earthquake monitoring network that studies seismic activity in real time. (www.beg.utexas.edu/texnet)
The monitoring system was built by UT (with an assist from SMU, A&M, and
SwRI) with state funds. The project was launched because of the increased number of earthquakes in the DFW, South Texas and Permian Basin areas in last decade. The research from TexNet can separate natural occurring events versus induced seismic activity from wastewater injection wells in the oil patch.
With TexNet now live, come hear recent findings from this innovative program by joining us on January 10th to hear UT project leader, Dr. Peter Hennings, and learn what the research is showing about seismic activity across the state.
SPEAKER:
Dr. Peter Hennings is a Research Scientist at The University of Texas Bureau of Economic Geology where he is Principal Investigator at the the Center for Integrated Seismicity Research. Peter joined UT's BEG following retirement after 25 years in the petroleum industry where he worked as a research scientist at Mobil Oil and Phillips Petroleum; and, technical manager at ConocoPhillips.
Peter received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Texas A&M University and his Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin.
Online registration is now closed. Walk-ins may be accommodated, if space becomes available based on no-shows, at the following rates: ACG Member price: 45./Non-ACG Member price: 75.
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Cancellation Policy – Cancellations received in writing to acgcentraltexas@acg.org by 5pm, Jan. 9th will receive a full refund. There are no refunds for cancellations received after 5pm on Jan. 9th. If you are an ACG Member unable to attend, you can transfer your registration to another person for this same event. If the person attending in your place is not an ACG Member, they will need to pay an additional fee to bring them up to the non-member rate to attend.
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Austin/San Antonio