The Paper Trail
"The Paper Trail" is a series of interviews with researchers who published in the Netherlands Journal of Geosciences. We ask them to tell us a bit about the background to their work, the relevance to science and society and just how it was to write the piece!
The Paper Trail
Jogs and steps along fault planes in the Groningen gas field might have helped prevent stronger earthquakes
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Henk Kombrink
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Season 1
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Episode 16
In this interview, Rick Wentinck talks about a new modelling approach that simulates movement along fault planes in the Groningen gas field. The results are important, because for the first time, it has been shown that fault plane irregularities may have resulted in the arrest of ruptures, preventing them from progressing deeper into the underburden of the Rotliegend reservoir and thereby causing potentially even stronger seismic events.