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... Seismic activity began the first year following impoundment . Several hundred local tremors were recorded ; rapid changes in the lake level were fol- lowed two to six weeks later by increases in the intensity and frequency of shocks ...
... Seismic activity began the first year following impoundment . Several hundred local tremors were recorded ; rapid changes in the lake level were fol- lowed two to six weeks later by increases in the intensity and frequency of shocks ...
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... seismic regime has been modified by the im- pounding of large reservoirs now exceeds thirty . " A large reservoir is described by the National Academy of Sciences as one with a volume of one million acre - feet or more , and usually ...
... seismic regime has been modified by the im- pounding of large reservoirs now exceeds thirty . " A large reservoir is described by the National Academy of Sciences as one with a volume of one million acre - feet or more , and usually ...
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... seismic and the other aseismic . Both consist of rocks that are shown to have a highly anistropic per- meability due to alternating permeable and imper- meable strata ... In the aseismic area , vertical fluid flow is blocked by a ...
... seismic and the other aseismic . Both consist of rocks that are shown to have a highly anistropic per- meability due to alternating permeable and imper- meable strata ... In the aseismic area , vertical fluid flow is blocked by a ...
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