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Role of reservoirs in sustained seismicity of Koyna-Warna region—a statistical analysis

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Koyna-Warna region in western India is a globally recognized site of reservoir-triggered seismicity near the Koyna and Warna reservoirs. The region has been reported with several M > 5 earthquakes in the last five decades including M6.3 Koyna earthquake which is considered as the largest triggered earthquake worldwide. In the present study, a detailed statistical analysis has been done for long period earthquake catalogues during 1968–2004 of MERI and 2005–2012 of CSIR-NGRI to find out the spatio-temporal influence of the Koyna and Warna reservoirs impoundment on the seismicity of the region. Depending upon the earthquake clusters, we divided the region into three different zones and performed power spectrum and singular spectrum analysis (SSA) on them. For the time period 1983–1995, the earthquake zone near the Warna reservoir; for 1996–2004, the earthquake zone near the Koyna reservoir; and for 2005–2012, the earthquake zone near the Warna reservoir found to be influenced by the annual water level variations in the reservoirs that confirm the continuous role of both the reservoirs in the seismicity of the Koyna-Warna region.

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Acknowledgements

Two anonymous reviewers and Editor Thomas Braun provided constructive comments which improved the paper significantly. The work was carried out under the Koyna Project sponsored by the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India, New Delhi. The authors thank the Maharashtra Engineering Research Institute, Maharashtra and CSIR-NGRI for providing the earthquake catalogue and to Koyna dam authority for providing the reservoir water level data of Koyna and Warna. The first author is thankful to Dr. Sukanta Roy, Project Director Borehole Geophysics Research Laboratory, Karad, for the support in carrying out this work.

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    Amrita Yadav

  2. CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India

    Kalpna Gahalaut

  3. National Centre for Earth Science Studies, ESSO-MoES, Thiruvananthapuram, India

    N. Purnachandra Rao

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Fig. S1

(a, c, e) Reconstructed components (RC1, RC2, and RC3) and (b, d, f) their power spectrum for the first three components of both the seismicity for Zone C and Warna reservoir water level time series during the time period 2005–2012 (after Yadav et al., 2015). 95% confidence curves (dotted lines) are also shown. (JPEG 955 kb)

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Power spectrum for the first three reconstructed components of the earthquake time series for Zone A and Zone B during the time period 1983–1995. 95% confidence curves (dotted lines) are also shown. (JPEG 838 kb)

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Power spectrum (right panels) for the first three reconstructed components of the earthquake time series for Zone B and Zone C during the time period 1996–2004. 95% confidence curves (dotted lines) are also shown. (JPEG 860 kb)

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Yadav, A., Gahalaut, K. & Purnachandra Rao, N. Role of reservoirs in sustained seismicity of Koyna-Warna region—a statistical analysis. J Seismol 22, 909–920 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10950-018-9741-1

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