RESERVOIR INDUCED EARTHQUAKES

Since the publication of the first Dams and Earthquakes in 1976, the phenomenon of reservoir induced seismicity RIS is more widely understood.

There are now over 70 known cases of reservoir-induced earthquakes.

These damaging earthquakes have occurred in China, Kariba, Zambia, Greece, Kremasta, Koyna, India, California and elsewhere.

The December 10, 1967 Koyna earthquake, with a magnitude of 6.3 claimed over 200 lives, injured 1500 and rendered thousands homeless. Because of the ever increasing demand for dam construction, for power generation, irrigation, and flood control, it is necessary to understand how, where and why induced