Seismicity Activated by Injections near Pohang (IMAGE)

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Seismicity Activated by Injections near Pohang

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Geothermal energy developers drilled two wells in Pohang, South Korea, and one of them intersected with a previously undetected fault. Fluid injected into the well known as PX-2 activated seismicity and led to a damaging earthquake on November 15, 2017.

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Lee, <em>et</em> <em>al</em>. 2019 <em>Science</em>

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