Water and earthquakes / Вода и землетрясения

Water and earthquakes, while two seemingly separate subjects, do interact, as evidenced by the great many earthquakes during the last decade in themid-continental USA induced by the injection of toxic wastewater co-produced from hydrocarbon extraction. This occurrence has spurred many studies on induced seismicity, which, in turn, have led to much progress in understanding the interactions between water and earthquakes beyond that presented when our first book on Earthquakes andWater was published ~10 years ago. Three new research directions and opportunities have advanced the studies of the interaction between earthquakes and water. One is an increased use of the tidal response of groundwater to quantify earthquake-induced changes in groundwater systems, which has moved the field of earthquake hydrology from a more descriptive study to amore quantitative science. Second, several drilling projects into active fault zones have provided new insights into their hydraulic and thermal properties. Third, many large earthquakes in the last decade produced a great amount of new data that have revealed some hitherto unknown and unexpected groundwater responses to earthquakes. These advances have prompted us to write the present volume that is significantly different from our first book. <...>