M. Elena Vallés del Diario de Mallorca muy interesada por la seismicidad inducida en la entrevista a Víctor Vilarrasa

 

M. Elena Vallés del Diario de Mallorca publica un extenso artículo entrevistando a Víctor Vilarrasa. Los temas de la seismicidad inducida, la geotermia, el congreso organizado esta semana en Ca n'Oleo, posibilidades de implantación como alternativa a otras renovables o no, ... y todo ello en Mallorca.

 

The GEoREST team has another new publication in the International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences

 

We have another new publication in International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences - "Numerical modeling of hydraulic stimulation of fractured crystalline rock at the bedretto underground laboratory for geosciences and geoenergies". 
You can access this open access paper here:

 

Víctor Vilarrasa has written a dissemination article at the Foundation Muy Interesante on the causes of the Castor earthquakes

 

The earthquakes induced by the underground gas storage (UGS) project of Castor, Spain, were very controversial because they represented the largest earthquakes ever induced by an UGS project, reaching magnitude 4.1. Citizens living close to the offshore platform could felt the earthquakes and the project ended up with its cancellation, implying a billionaire cost for the Spanish population to compensate the company. The causes of these earthquakes are now explained in layman terms in a recent dissemination article by Víctor Vilarrasa, published by Foundación Muy Interesante: