Seismic risk at the Preston New Road shale gas site near Blackpool

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Macroseismic intensity for an ML 4.5 event with the fault surface projection shown by the pink rectangle.

A new study by Dr. Ben Edwards and collaborators from the University of Pavia, Italy, and Imperial College London investigates the seismic risk and damage analysis of induced earthquakes and hypothetical scenarios at the Preston New Road shale gas site near Blackpool, UK.

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Edwards, B., Crowley, H., Pinho, R., & Bommer, J. J. (2021). Seismic Hazard and Risk Due to Induced Earthquakes at a Shale Gas Site. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120200234