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Year Published	Author(s)	Title
2015	Gono, V., Olson , J. E. and Gale, J.	Understanding the Correlation between Induced Seismicity and Wastewater Injection in the Fort Worth Basin
2016	Frohlich, C., DeShon, H. R., Stump, B., Hayward, C., Hornbach, M. and Walter, J.I.	A Historical Review of Induced Earthquakes in Texas https://doi.org/10.1785/0220160016
2016	Fan, Z., Eichhubl, P., and Gale, J. F. W.	Geomechanical analysis of fluid injection and seismic fault slip for the MW4.8 Timpson, Texas, earthquake sequence. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, v. 121 (4), p. 2798-2812 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2016JB012821
2017	Zalachoris, G., Rathje, E. M., Paine, J.G.	VS30 Characterization of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas Using the P-Wave Seismogram Method https://doi.org/10.1193/102416EQS179M
2017	Zhu, C., Fan, Z., and Eichhubl, P.	The Effect of Variable Fluid Injection Rate on the Stability of Seismogenic Faults ARMA. American Rock Mechanics Association, 51st U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, 25-28 June, San Francisco, California, pp.1-7, https://www.onepetro.org/conference-paper/ARMA-2017-0098
2018	Chen, R., Xue, X. Yao, C., Datta-Gupta, A., King, M., Hennings, P., and Dommisse, R.	Coupled Fluid Flow and Geomechanical Modeling of Seismicity in the Azle Area North Texas https://doi.org/10.2118/191623-MS
2018	DeShon, H. R., Hayward, C. T., Ogwari, P.O, Quinones, L., Sufri, O., Stump, B., and Magnani, M.B	Summary of the North Texas Earthquake Study Seismic Networks, 2013–2018 https://doi.org/10.1785/0220180269
2018	Kahlor, L.A., Olsen, H.C, Markman, A. B., and Wang, W.	Avoiding Trouble: Exploring Environmental Risk Information Avoidance Intentions https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0013916518799149
2018	Ogwari, P., DeShon, H. R., and Hornbach, M. J.	The Dallas‐Fort Worth Airport Earthquake Sequence: Seismicity Beyond Injection Period https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JB015003
2018	Quinones, L. A., DeShon, H. R., Magnani, M. B., and Frohlich, C.	Stress Orientations in the Fort Worth Basin, Texas, Determined from Earthquake Focal Mechanisms https://doi.org/10.1785/0120170337
2018	Scanlon, B. R., Weingarten, M. B., Murray, K.E, and Reedy, R. C.	Managing Basin‐Scale Fluid Budgets to Reduce Injection‐Induced Seismicity from the Recent U.S. Shale Oil Revolution https://doi.org/10.1785/0220180223
2018	Walter, J.I., Frohlich, C., and Borgfeldt, T.	Natural and Induced Seismicity in the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/srl/article-abstract/89/6/2437/548553/Natural-and-Induced-Seismicity-in-the-Texas-and?redirectedFrom=PDF
2018	Yust, M.B., Cox, B.R., Cheng, T.	Epistemic Uncertainty in Vs Profiles and Vs30 Values Derived from Joint Consideration of Surface Wave and H/V Data at the FW07 TexNet Station https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784481462.038
2018	Haddad, M., Eichhubl, P.	Poroelastic Models for Fault Reactivation in Response to Injection and Production. Presented at the 52nd U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, Seattle, Washington, USA, 17-20 June. ARMA-18-1321, https://www.onepetro.org/conference-paper/ARMA-2018-1321
2019	Deline, M.B., and Kahlor, L. A.	Planned Risk Information Avoidance: A Proposed Theoretical Model https://doi.org/10.1093/ct/qty035
2019	Fan, Z., Eichhubl, P., and Newell, P.	Basement Fault Reactivation by Fluid Injection IntoSedimentary Reservoirs: Poroelastic Effects https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB017062
2019	Frolich, F., Frohlich, C., Hayward, C., Rosenblit, J., Aiken, C. Hennings, P. H., Savvaidis, A. Lemons, C., Horne, E., Walter, J., and DeShon, H. R.	Onset and cause of increased seismic activity near Pecos, West Texas, USA from observations at the Lajitas TXAR Seismic Array https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019JB017737
2019	Hennings, P. H., Lund Snee, J.E., Osmond, DeShon, H.R, Dommisse, R., Horne, E., Lemons, C and Zoback, M.D.	Injection-Induced Seismicity and Fault-Slip Potential in the Fort Worth Basin, Texas https://doi.org/10.1785/0120190017
2019	Huang, G. D., Savvaidis, A., and Walter, J. I.	Mapping the 3‐D Lithospheric Structure of the Greater Permian Basin in West Texas and Southeast New Mexico for Earthquake Monitoring https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JB018351
2019	Kahlor, L.A, Wang, W., Olsen, H.C, Li, X., and Markman, A.B.	Public perceptions and information-seeking intentions related to seismicity in five Texas communities https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221242091830726X?via%3Dihub
2019	Khosravikia, F., Clayton, P., and Nagy, Z.	Artificial Neural Network-Based Framework for Developing Ground-Motion Models for Natural and Induced Earthquakes in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/srl/article-pdf/doi/10.1785/0220180218/4602832/srl-2018218.1.pdf
2019	Khosravikia, F., and Clayton, P.	Updated evaluation metrics for optimal intensity measure selection in probabilistic seismic demand models https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2019.109899
2019	Lomax, A., and Savvaidis, A.	Improving absolute earthquake location in west Texas using probabilistic, proxy ground-truth station corrections https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JB017727
2019	Quinones, L. A., DeShon, H. R., Jeong, S., Ogwari, P., Sufri, O., Holt, M. M. and Kwong, K. B.	Tracking Induced Seismicity in the Fort Worth Basin: A Summary of the 2008–2018 North Texas Earthquake Study Catalog https://doi.org/10.1785/0120190057
2019	Savvaidis, A., Young, B., Huang, G. D. and Lomax, A.	TexNet: A Statewide Seismological Network in Texas https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/srl/article-abstract/90/4/1702/571435/TexNet-A-Statewide-Seismological-Network-in-Texas?redirectedFrom=PDF
2019	Smye, K. M, Lemons, C. R., Eastwood, R. McDaid, G., and Hennings, P. H.	Stratigraphic architecture and petrophysical characterization of formations for deep disposal in the Fort Worth Basin, Texas https://library.seg.org/doi/pdf/10.1190/INT-2018-0195.1
2019	Zalachoris, G., and Rathje, E.M	Ground Motion Model for Small-to-Moderate Earthquakes in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas https://doi.org/10.1193/022618EQS047M
2019	Lemons, C. R., McDaid, G., Smye, K. M, Acevedo, J. P, Hennings, P. H., Banerji, D. A., and Scanlon, B. R	Spatiotemporal and Stratigraphic Trends in salt-water disposal practices of the Permian Basin, Texas and New Mexico, United States. Environmental Geosciences, v. 26, no. 4 https://doi.org/10.1306/eg.06201919002
2019	Savvaidis, A., Lomax, A., Breton, C.	Induced seismicity in the Delaware Basin, west Texas, is caused by hydraulic fracturing and wastewater disposal . In press in Bulletin of Seismological Society of America, available online on August25^th https://utexas.box.com/s/d0b4htv0xudmogv2oxs4ujr4wy139bec
2020	Chen, R, Xue, X., Park, J., Datta-Gupta, A., and King, M. J.	New Insights into the Mechanisms of Seismicity in the Azle Area, North Texas https://doi.org/10.1190/geo2018-0357.1
2020	Khosravikia F, Kurkowski J, and Clayton P. (2020)	Fragility of masonry veneers to human-induced Central U.S. earthquakes using neural network models Journal of Building Engineering, 28 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2019.101100
2020	Haddad, M., and Eichhubl, P.	Poroelastic Models for Fault Reactivation in Response to Concurrent Injection and Production in Stacked Reservoirs Journal of Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gete.2020.100181
2020	Horne, E.A, Hennings, P. H., Osmond, J. L and DeShon, H.R.	Structural Characterization of Potentially Seismogenic Faults in the Fort Worth Basin http://dx.doi.org/10.1190/INT-2019-0188.1
2020	R. W. Porritt, A. Savvaidis, B. Young, M. Shirley, P. Li	Crustal Structure in Southeastern Texas from Joint Inversion of Ambient Seismic Noise and P to S Receiver Functions https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GC008866
2020	F. Kavoura, A. Savvaidis, E. Rathje	Determination of Local Magnitude for Earthquakes Recorded From the Texas Seismological Network (TEXNET) https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/srl/article-abstract/doi/10.1785/0220190366/589672/Determination-of-Local-Magnitude-for-Earthquakes
2020	Iason Grigoratos; Ellen Rathje; Paolo Bazzurro; Alexandros Savvaidis	Earthquakes Induced by Wastewater Injection, Part I: Model Development and Hindcasting Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2020) https://doi.org/10.1785/0120200078
2020	Iason Grigoratos; Ellen Rathje; Paolo Bazzurro; Alexandros Savvaidis	Earthquakes Induced by Wastewater Injection, Part II: Statistical Evaluation of Causal Factors and Seismicity Rate Forecasting Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2020) https://doi.org/10.1785/0120200079
2020	Jeong, S., B. Stump and H.R. DeShon	Spectral Characteristics of Ground Motion from Induced Earthquakes in the Fort Worth Basin, Texas, Using the Generalized Inversion Technique. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 110, 2058-2076. https://doi: 10.1785/0120200097.
2020	Staniewicz, S., Chen, J. Lee, H., Olson,J., Savvaidis, A., Reedy, R., Breton, C., Rathje, E., Hennings, P.	InSAR reveals complex surface deformation patterns over an 80,000 square kilometer oil-producing region in the Permian Basin. Geophysical Research Letters (2020): 2020GL090151
2020	Merzlikin, D., Savvaidis, A., Whittaker, S., Bestmann, I.	Data Processing of a local Seismological Network for West Texas Seismicity Characterization Published in Seismological Research Letters: https://doi.org/10.1785/0220190358
2020	Robinson, R., Aiging, L., Savvaidis, A., Hu, H.	Complex shear wave anisotropy from induced earthquakes in west Texas Published in Bulletin of Seismological Society of America https://utexas.box.com/shared/static/sey6azyyrh7w2pzf9byu45m8wb6m74hw.pdf

Papers Accepted

Author(s)

Title

Smye, K.M., Hennings, P.H., and Horne, E.A.

Variations in Vertical Stress in the Permian Basin Region

AAPG Bulletin

Elizabeth A. Horne, Peter H. Hennings, Christopher K. Zahm

Basement-Rooted Faults of the Delaware Basin and Central Basin Platform, Permian Basin, West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico

Submitted: The Geologic Basement of Texas: a volume in honor of Peter Flawn. BEG Report of Investigations (July 2020)

Papers Submitted

Author(s)	Title

Li. P., Huang G. D., and Savvaidis, A.	Seismic Features of the Permian Basin Region from Receiver Function Analysis Submitted: Tectonophysics (August 2019)
Khosravikia, F., and Clayton, P.	Machine Learning in Ground Motion Prediction Submitted: Journal of Earthquake Engineering (April 2019)
Khosravikia, F., and Clayton, P.	Influence of Induced and Non-induced Ground Motion Characteristics on Masonry Veneer Vulnerability Submitted: Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics (November 2019)
Grigoratos I, Bazzurro P, Rathje E, Savvaidis	Time-dependent seismic hazard and risk due to wastewater injection in Oklahoma Submitted May 2020 to A Earthquake Spectra. Second and final stage of review as of September 2020.
Gao, R.S., J.-P. Nicot, P.H. Hennings, P. La Pointe, K.M. Smye, E.A. Horne, R. Dommisse	Low pressure build-up with large disposal volumes of oilfield water: A comprehensive hydrogeologic model of pore pressure change in the Ellenburger Group, Fort Worth Basin, North-Central Texas Submitted to AAPG Bulletin
J.P. Nicot	Hydrogeology of the Texas Basement Submitted: The Geologic Basement of Texas: a volume in honor of Peter Flawn. BEG Report of Investigations (July 2020)
Smye, K.M., Banerji, D.A. Eastwood, R, McDaid, G., and Hennings, P.H.	Facies and Reservoir Properties of the Delaware Mountain Group of the Delaware Basin and Implications for Saltwater Disposal In review at Journal of Sedimentary Research as of August 2020.
Li, M. Rathje, E., Cox, B., and Yust, M.	A Regional Vs30 Map for Texas Incorporating Geology and Vs30 Observation. Submitted for possible publication in Earthquake Spectra.
Jeong, S.-J., B. Stump and H.R. DeShon	Stress Drop Estimates for Induced Seismic Events in the Fort Worth Basin, Texas. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Submitted to the August 2020, in revision.