DENVER EARTHQUAKES
DENVER EARTHQUAKES
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DOI：
10.1126/science.161.3848.1301
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发表时间：
1968-01-01
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影响因子：
56.9
通讯作者：
RALEIGH, CB
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作者：
HEALY, JH;RUBEY, WW;RALEIGH, CB
科学家和政府官员正在认真考虑以下问题：从深埋水库中排出液体是否会降低科罗拉多州丹佛市附近发生破坏性地震的可能性。讨论中所讨论的问题并不像看起来那么荒谬。尽管并非一致，但人们普遍认为注入。化学废液流入丹佛盆地的水库引发了地震。我们试图在这里提供统计证据，将流体注入和地震这两个事件联系起来，并提出一个将两者作为因果关系的假设。 1961 年，美国陆军在科罗拉多州丹佛市东北部的落基山兵工厂完成了一口深处置井。该井钻穿丹佛盆地3638米近乎平坦的沉积岩，钻入前寒武纪结晶岩；竣工深度为3671米。兵工厂化学制造作业产生的废液的处理一直是一个难题，深井似乎是一个理想的解决方案。常规输液从1962年3月8日开始，一直持续到1963年9月30日，平均每月约2100万升。没有液体
Scientists and public officials are seriously considering the question of whether removal of fluid from a deeply buried reservoir will reduce the likelihood of a destructive earthquake near Denver, Colorado. The question at issue in the discussions is not so absurd as it might seem. It is widely, though not unanimously, held that injection of. chemical-waste fluid into the reservoir in the Denver basin triggered the earthquakes. We attempt here to present the statistical evidence for correlating the two events-fluid injection and earthquakes-and to develop a hypothesis relating the two as cause and effect.In 1961 a deep disposal well was completed for the US Army at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, northeast of Denver, Colorado. The well was drilled through 3638 meters of nearly flat-lying sedimentary rocks in the Denver basin into Precambrian crystalline rocks; its depth at completion was 3671 meters. The disposal of waste fluids· from chemical-manufacturing operations at the arsenal had been a difficult problem, for which the deep well appeared to be an ideal solution. Injection of fluids on a routine basis was begun on 8 March 1962 and continued through 30 September 1963 at an average rate of about 21 million liters per month. No fluid was