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Earthquake catalogs from induced seismicity case studies in western Texas and northern Oklahoma

This dataset contains earthquake catalogs from induced seismicity cases in western Texas and northern Oklahoma/Kansas, and the results of earthquake magnitude forecasting methods (using Extreme Value Theory) applied to these datasets (Verdon and Eisner, 2024). The catalogs archived here were curated from regional earthquake datasets: for Oklahoma/Kansas the original data source was Park et al. (2022, DOI 10.1785/0320220020) and for Texas the original source was TexNet (https://catalog.texnet.beg.utexas.edu). Verdon and Eisner (2024) curated subsets of this data (drawn from within 20 x 20 km2 "blocks") in order to apply and test their forecasting methods on localised event catalogs. In this dataset we provide the localised catalogs, and the results of the forecasting models (tracking forecasted earthquake magnitudes over time in comparison with the observed evolution of events). The input data and forecasting results are provided in Matlab format structures (.mat). Matlab scripts and functions (.m files) are also provided to read the data and perform the analyses that are presented in Verdon and Eisner (2024). A README text file is provided that details the content of the Matlab structures. Reference: Verdon, J.P., and L. Eisner, 2024. An empirically constrained forecasting strategy for induced earthquake magnitudes using extreme value theory: Seismological Research Letters 95, 3278-3294. DOI: 10.1785/0220240061

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Date (Creation)
2026-01-28
Identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608617
Originator
  University of Bristol - Dr J P Verdon ( Lecturer in Applied Geophysics, School of Earth Sciences )
Wills Memorial Building, Queens Road, Clifton , Bristol , BS8 1RJ ,
Originator
  Seismik s.r.o. - Leo Eisner
Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
United Kingdom
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
United Kingdom
Maintenance and update frequency
notApplicable notApplicable
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Geology
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
  • Earthquake prediction
  • Earthquakes
  • Induced seismicity
  • Forecasting
dataCentre
  • NGDC Deposited Data
  • data.gov.uk (non-INSPIRE)
  • Citable Data
Keywords
  • NERC_DDC
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Other constraints
Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"
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The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.
Other constraints
Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"
Spatial representation type
grid Grid
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Geographic identifier
KANSAS [id=790500]

Date (Creation)
1979

Geographic identifier
OKLAHOMA [id=783000]

Date (Creation)
1979

Geographic identifier
TEXAS [id=782000]

Date (Creation)
1979

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Begin date
2010-01-01
End date
2023-01-01
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)
Distribution format
  • MATLAB (MAT) ()

Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
United Kingdom
OnLine resource
Data ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
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Citation Information - Digital Object Identifier (DOI) ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related )

Verdon, J., Eisner, L. (2026). Earthquake catalogs from induced seismicity case studies in western Texas and northern Oklahoma. NERC EDS National Geoscience Data Centre. (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.5285/0c8a2caf-5f3a-4142-aea3-99cfb1277bcb

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Date (Publication)
2011
Explanation
See the referenced specification
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No

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation
See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
Pass
No
Statement
The catalogs archived here were curated from regional earthquake datasets: for Oklahoma/Kansas the original data source was Park et al. (2022, DOI 10.1785/0320220020) and for Texas the original source was TexNet (https://catalog.texnet.beg.utexas.edu). Verdon and Eisner (2024) curated subsets of this data (drawn from within 20 x 20 km2 "blocks") in order to apply and test their forecasting methods on localised event catalogs.
File identifier
499800fb-a0d8-0c0a-e063-3050940a7ad6 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2026-05-06
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey
Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth , NOTTINGHAM , NOTTINGHAMSHIRE , NG12 5GG , United Kingdom
+44 115 936 3100
Dataset URI
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608617
 
 

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