Title: Gas Migration : Events Preceding Earthquakes Author: G.V. Chilingar, John O. Robertson Jr., Leonid F. Khilyuk ISBN: 0884154300 / 9780884154303 Format: Hard Cover Pages: 400 Publisher: GULF Year: 2000 Availability: In Stock
Description
Contents
This breakthrough new book may help save countless lives and avoid enormous losses. It presents a methodology for using gas migration to predict earthquakes and explosive gas buildup. Using rigorous scientific investigation and documented worldwide case histories, this remarkable book presents compelling evidence showing that changes in gas rates, composition, and migration accompany the tectronic events preceding earthquakes and their associated seismic events, such as volcanoes and tsunamis. Because these gas parameters are detectable and measurable, they provide an early warning of seismic activity.
Gas Migration is the first book to accumulate, analyze and apply the interdisciplinary knowledge on gas migration and detail its connection to tectronic, seismic, and geologic phenomena. It combines geological, geochemical, geophysical, seismological, and petroleum engineering insights to demonstrate how gas migration and its associated phenomena can be used in earthquake and environmental geohazard identification and prediction. Topics include-
• Tectonics and Earthquakes • Gas Migration at Plate Boundaries • Surface Soil-Gas Surveys • Faults and Petroleum Reservoirs • Earthquake Precursors • Whispering Gases • Paths and Mechanics of Gas Migration • Subsidence, Gas Migration, and Seismic Activity • And much more
With this information, environmental specialists, civil engineers, petroleum geologists, seismologists, and urban planners now have a new and powerful conceptual basis and tool for understanding and perhaps even predicting gas explosions and earthquakes.
Foreword
Preface
Part 1 : Tectonics and Gas Migration Chapter 1 : Tectonics and Earthquakes Chapter 2 : Gas Migration at Plate Boundaries Chapter 3 : Surface Soil—Gas Surveys Chapter 4 : Southern California—Faults and Petroleum Reservoirs
Part 2 : Events Preceding Earthquakes Chapter 5 : Earthquake Precursors Chapter 6 : Occurrence and Consequences of Quakes Chapter 7 : Causes of Earthquakes Chapter 8 : Magnitude and Intensity of Earthquakes Chapter 9 : Forecasting Large Earthquakes Chapter 10 : Ancient Fortellers Chapter 11 : Messages from the Earth Crust Chapter 12 : Fluids Talk Chapter 13 : Whispering Gases Chapter 14 : Progress in Developing a Forecasting System, Preferential Precursors and Monitoring Network
Part 3 : Principles of Gas Migration Chapter 15 : Migration Chapter 16 : Typical Composition of Natural Gases Chapter 17 : Mechanisms of Gas Migration Chapter 18 : Paths of Gas Migration Chapter 19 : Hazards Resulting from Migrating Gas Chapter 20 : Hazards of Gas Storage Fields
Part 4 : Interrelationships among Subsidence, Gas Migration, and Seismic Activity Chapter 21 : Interrelationships among Subsidence, Gas Migration, and Seismic Activity Chapter 22 : Subsidence Mechanics Chapter 23 : Fracturing Due to Subsidence Chapter 24 : Water Aquifer Subsidence Chapter 25 : Technologically Induced Earthquakes Chapter 26 : Gas Migration in Seismically-Active Areas Chapter 27 : Joint Forecasting of Subsidence, Gas Migration, and Seismic Activity Chapter 28 : Conclusions
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