Program
Program EPIS Workshop 2024
Sunday November 10
| After 15:00 | Arrival (Hotel Reception) |
| 17:00 – 18:30 | Registration and icebreaker + software fixes (Reception Hall) |
| 18:30 – 20:00 | Dinner (Hotel Restaurant) |
| 20:00 – 23:00 | Option: Lab Tour in Earth Simulation Laboratory, Utrecht
Transportation by bus. At the registration you can indicate whether you want to join the lab tour. Maximum number of persons is 25. The bus leaves in front of the hotel at 20:00. |
| 20:00 – 23:00 | Socializing (own costs) (Reception Hall)
For guests not joining the lab tour. |
Monday November 11
08:00 – 09:00 Registration (Reception Hall).
Morning session on What is Earthquake Physics?
Meeting room: Water
| 09:00 – 09:05 | Welcome from workshop TREAD organization Ylona van Dinther (UU) |
| 09:05 – 10:00 | Lecture on an overview of “Earthquake physics, Rheology, and Rock Mechanics” Ylona van Dinther (UU) |
| 10:00 – 10:45 | Lecture on “Fault Friction and Earthquake Nucleation” André Niemeijer (UU) |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Coffee break (Meeting room Water) |
| 11:15 – 12:00 | Practical on “From Laboratory Data to Rate-And-State Friction parameters” André Niemeijer (UU) |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lecture on “Dynamic friction, Energy Budget and Earthquake Arrest” Giulio Di Toro (University of Padua) |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch (Hotel Restaurant) |
Afternoon session on Single Earthquakes
Meeting room: Water
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Lecture on “Introduction to 3D Dynamic Rupture and Seismic Wave Propagation Simulations with SeisSol” Alice Gabriel (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego and LMU Munich) |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Practical on “Modelling Dynamic Earthquake Ruptures using SeisSol” Alice Gabriel (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego and LMU Munich) and Thomas Ulrich (LMU Munich) |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Coffee break (Meeting room Water) |
| 16:30 – 17:30 | Lecture on “Fracture Mechanics” Jan-Dirk Jansen (TU Delft) and Bernard Meulenbroek (TU Delft) |
| 17:30 – 18:30 | Posters TREAD + drinks (own costs) and snacks (Meeting room Water) |
Evening session
| 18:30 – 20:00 | Dinner (Hotel Restaurant) |
| 20:00 – 2200 | Socializing + posters TREAD (Meeting room Water) |
Tuesday November 12
Morning session on Earthquake Sequences
Meeting room: Water
| 09:00 – 10:00 | Lecture on “A Micro-physical Model for Fault Friction: Chen-Niemeijer-Spiers model“ André Niemeijer (UU) |
| 10:00 – 11:00 | Practical on “CNS model and Earthquake Sequences with QDYN” André Niemeijer (UU) |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee break (Meeting room: Water) |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | Lecture on “Earthquake sequences: inter-, co- and post seismic processes” Ylona van Dinther (UU) |
| 12:30 – 13:00 | Lecture on “Seismotectonic Modelling: Methods and Central Apennines” Ylona van Dinther (UU), Maaike Fonteijn (ISterre) and Alexander Koelzer (UU) |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch (Hotel restaurant) |
Afternoon session on Earthquake Simulators
Meeting room: Water
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Lecture on “Extending to tens of thousands of years” Bruno Pace |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Lecture on “Fundamentals of Earthquake Simulators” Olaf Zielke (KAUST) |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Practical on “Modelling Earthquakes: From MCQSim to openQUAKE” Olaf Zielke (KAUST), Prof. Bruno Pace |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Coffee break (Meeting room: Water) |
| 17:00 – 17:15 | Introduction for Discussion “From Earthquake Physics to Hazard” Ylona van Dinther (Utrecht University) |
| 17:00 – 19:00 | Registration new arrivals, icebreaker / drinks for all (Reception Hall) |
| 19:00 – 21:00 | Dinner (Hotel Restaurant) |
| 21:00 – 23:00 | Socializing (drinks at own cost) (Reception Hall, Game Room, ..) |
Wednesday November 13
08:00 – 09:30 Registration (Reception Hall)
Morning session on Induced Seismicity – The Dutch perspectives
Meeting room: Water
Chair: André Niemeijer & Loes Buijze
| 09:00 – 09:15 | Welcome by organizers Loes Buijze (TNO) and André Niemeijer (UU) |
| 09:15 – 09:35 | “Induced seismicity in the energy transition” Maurice Hanegraaf (TNO) |
| 09:35 – 10:00 | “Induced seismicity from government perspective” Karin van Thienen-Visser (Ministry of Climate and Green Growth) |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | “Induced seismicity related to geothermal energy production” Henk van Oeveren, Andrea Vondrak (Ennatuurlijk Aardwarmte) |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | “Case study microseismicity in salt” José León González Acosta (TNO), Loes Buijze (TNO) |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break (Meeting room Water) |
Morning session on Lab experiments & injection-induced seismicity
Meeting room: Water
Session chair: André Niemeijer (UU)
| 11:00 – 11:15 | “Fluid pressure effects on fault stability” John Bedford (University of Liverpool), Daniel Faulkner, Taeho Kim, Nadia Lapusta, Michael Allen and Takehiro Hirose |
| 11:15 – 11:30 | “Induced seismicity caused by the release of remnant stress during fluid injection” Aagje Eijsink (Pennsylvania State University), Raphael Affinito, Chris Marone, Jacques Riviere, Parisa Shokouhi and Derek Elsworth |
| 11:30 – 11:45 | “Geomechanical behaviour of Lower Carboniferous – Dinantian rocks under different fluid conditions relevant for Ultra Deep Geothermal energy exploitation” Entela Kane (TU Delft), André Niemeijer (UU), Annemarie Muntendam-Bos (TU Delft), Anne Pluymakers (TU Delft) |
| 11:45 – 12:00 | “Effect of feldspar-to-sheet silicate ratio on the frictional stability of crustal fault gouges” Weijia Zhan (University of Bern), André Niemeijer (UU), Chris Spiers (UU), Alfons Berger, Marco Herwegh |
| 12:00 – 12:15 | “Coupling between pressure and opening during fluid migration along a fault” Kamal Ahmadov (University of Strasbourg) and Jean Schmittbuhl (University of Strasbourgh) |
| 12:15 – 12: 30 | “A methodology for fault reactivation and event size estimation for CO2 injection in depleted resevoirs” Dr. Mohammad Reza Hajiabadi (DTU-Offshore), S. Amour, Hamed Nick Hosseinzadehsadati |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch (Hotel Restaurant) |
Afternoon session on Modeling of injection & depletion-induced seismicity
Meeting room Water
| 13:30 – 13:55 | “From fluid-induced microearthquakes to earthquake cascades: Rupture dynamics across scales using supercomputing” Alice Gabriel (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego and LMU Munich, Germany) |
| 13:55 – 14:10 | “Nucleation and arrest of induced earthquakes in a heterogeneous earthquake sequence model for Groningen” Meng Li (UU), André Niemeijer (UU), Ylona van Dinther (UU) and Femke Vossepoel (TU Delft) |
| 14:10 – 14:25 | “The effect of coupling between slip patches on the onset of induced seismicity in faulted reservoirs” Jan Dirk Jansen (TU Delft) and Bernard Meulenbroek (TU Delft) |
| 14:25 – 14:40 | “Is differential strain a necessary condition for induced Seismicity?” Marc Hettema (EBN) and Marloes Kortekaas (EBN) |
| 14:40 – 15:00 | Hans de Bresser SUSCUU + poster train |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee Break |
Second afternoon session on From Earthquake Physics to Hazard
Meeting room Water
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Constraining “classical” seismic hazard modelling hypotheses with physics-based approaches : preliminary results + Introduction to discussion on “How to go from Physics and Modelling to Hazard?” with focus on natural seismicity Oona Scotti (IRSN) |
Poster session on Induced Seismicity
Meeting room Fire
| 16:00 – 19:00 | Poster presentations with drinks (from 17:00) |
Second afternoon session on From Earthquake Physics to Hazard (TREAD Session)
Meeting room Water
| 16:00 – 16:45 | Presentations working groups TREAD workshop Group presentations comparisons, pros & cons hazard approaches |
| 16:45 – 17:30 | Group Discussion on “How to move forward on TREAD Objectives” Oona Scotti (IRSN), Bruno Pace (d’Annunzio University), Ylona van Dinther (UU) |
Evening session
| 19:00 – 21:00 | 3-course dinner (Hotel Restaurant) |
| 21:00 – 23:00 | Socializing (drinks at own cost) (Reception Hall)
Informal pool and table tennis competition (Game Room)
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Thursday November 14
08:00 – 09:30 Registration (Reception Hall)
Morning session on Induced Seismicity modeling and observations
Meeting room: Water
| 09:00 – 09:25 | “Integrating observations, geological, and modeling constraints to study mechanisms that induce fault activation” Rebecca Harrington (Ruhr University Bochum) |
| 09:25 – 09:40 | “Rupture cycles on a multi-scale rough fault” Thibault Candela (TNO), Jean-Paul Ampuero and Hsiao-Fan Lin (TNO) |
| 09:40 – 10:05 | “Non-double couple mechanisms induced seismicity” Torsten Dahm (GFZ Potsdam) |
| 10:05 – 10:20 | “Seismicity and reservoir monitoring with downhole DAS in the Groningen gas field” Wen Zhou (UU), Anna Stork, Jan van Elk, Ari David and dr. Annemarie Muntendam-Bos |
| 10:20 – 10:40 | “Monitoring seismicity in the Netherlands” Pauline Kruiver (KNMI), Elmer Ruigrok, Denise de Vos and Läslo Evers |
| 10:40 – 11:10 | Coffee break (Meeting room Water) |
Morning session on Seismic Hazard for Induced Seismicity
Meeting room Water
| 11:10 – 11:35 | “Seismic hazard, keep it simple” Stefan Wiemer (ETH Zürich) |
| 11:35 – 11:50 | “From earthquake modelling to seismic hazard and risk analysis” Sander Osinga (TNO), Frans Aben (TNO) and dr. Dirk Kraaijpoel (TNO) |
| 11:50 – 12:00 | Learnings from the TREAD discussion on natural seismicity Bruno Pace (d’Annunzio University) |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Discussion session “How to go from Physics and Modelling to Hazard?” With a focus on induced seismicity. |
| 12:30 – 13:45 | Lunch (Hotel Restaurant) |
Afternoon session on Does size matter? by EPOS-NL Challenges and approaches in upscaling research on induced seismicity and fluid transport”
Meeting room Water
Part 1: Challenges and approaches in understanding fault mechanics from lab to natural scales
| 13:45 – 13:55 | Welcome and introduction to session André Niemeijer (UU) |
| 13:55 – 14:10 | “Hydraulic fracturing induced seismicity in Western Canada” Taka Kanaya (Technical University of Darmstadt), Yajing Liu, Jamie Kirkpatrick, Marco Roth and Rebecca Harrington |
| 14:10 – 14:25 | “Hindcasting the 1993 – 2023 Wirdum Induced Earthquake Sequence through Semi-Analytical Stress Loading and 3D Dynamic Rupture Modeling” Vincent van der Heiden (UU), Thomas Ulrich, Loes Buijze (TNO), Martijn van Isselt, Lukas van de Wiel, Alice-Agnes Gabriel, Liviu Matenco, Jan-Diederik van Wees and Ylona van Dinther |
| 14:25 – 14:40 | “FEAR project: Re-activating a natural fault zone in the Bedretto underground Laboratory?” Massimo Cocco (INGV) and FEAR team |
| 14:40 – 15:10 | Coffee break (Meeting room Water) |
Part 2: EPOS-NL facilities for multi-scale research on fluid transport and rock mechanics
| 15:10 – 15:20 | Introduction to EPOS-NL Infrastructure for multi-scale research Ronald Pijnenburg (EPOS-NL, UU) |
| 15:20 – 15:35 | “Size doesn’t matter – it’s what you do with it” Mark Jefferd (UU & UT) |
| 15:35 – 15:50 | “The Rijswijk Centre for Sustainable Geo-energy: for research at meso-scale” Frank van Bergen (TNO) |
| 15:50 – 16:05 | “The Delft Geothermal Project: Opportunities for reservoir monitoring and reservoir modelling across scales” Sebastian Geiger (TU Delft) |
| 16:05 – 16:30 | Closing discussion on Upscaling.
Can we apply understanding obtained at lab scale (mm-cm), to describe fault behavior at natural scales (hm-km)? If not, what is missing? What is a way forward? |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Closing session & quiz |
| 17:00 – 18:30 | Socializing and drinks (Reception Hall) |
Evening session
| 18:30 – 20:00 | Buffet (Hotel Restaurant) |
| 20:00 – 01:00 | Party (Underground) |
Friday (15th of November) – Day 5
DeepNL Scientific Meeting
| 09:30-10:00 | Arrival & coffee | |
| 10:00-11:30 | Plenary program | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Poster session | |
| 12:30-13:15 | Lunch | |
| 13:15-14:30 | Plenary program | |
| 14:30-15:00 | Coffee break | |
| 15:00-16:30
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Interactive sessions | |
| 16:30-17:30
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Drinks |