TY - DATA T1 - Data accompanying the paper entitled "Fault weakening during short seismic slip pulse experiments: Implications for induced earthquakes in the Groningen gas field" PY - 2022/06/29 AU - Jianye Chen AU - André R Niemeijer UR - https://data.4tu.nl/articles/dataset/Data_accompanying_the_paper_entitled_Fault_weakening_during_short_seismic_slip_pulse_experiments_Implications_for_induced_earthquakes_in_the_Groningen_gas_field_/20179856/1 DO - 10.4121/20179856.v1 KW - Seismic slip pulse KW - induced earthquakes KW - earthquake rupture KW - dynamic weakening KW - local fluid pressurization N2 -

 In the Groningen gas field of the Netherlands, induced seismic events have occurred since the 1990s. The strongest event occurred in 2012 with a magnitude of MW 3.6. How faults slip during such small magnitude earthquakes (i.e., magnitude 3 – 4) is not clear, despite several recent studies. We conduct laboratory experiments to simulate the pulse-like (i.e. short but rapid) fault slip behavior characteristic for small magnitude human-induced seismicity, using a newly designed experimental set-up enabling  monitoring of the slip behavior under stress and displacement closer to conditions relevant to faults in Groningen. The enclosed dataset is the compressed file ('.rar'), which consists of 1) a table listing the information of all the experiments, 2) 84 data files ('.txt') of the smoothed data (~every 66 datapoints) for all the experiments. Note that one single experiment may contain 2-5 files (i.e. segments of records), and 3) 198 graphs showing the preliminary results ('.emf').  The title of the individual graphs correspond to the names of the data files.  

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