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Published Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:
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[25] Platt, L.*, Weingarten, M., Faunt, C. C., Traum, J. A., & Boyce, S. E. (2025 - in revision) Modeling Future Groundwater Depletion to Evaluate Sustainability Goals set by SGMA in the Critically Overdrafted Basins of the Central Valley, California, USA (2020 – 2070). Water Resources Research

[24] Hung, R.*, Weingarten, M., Ma, S., & Day, S. (2025 - in revision) Inelastic dilatancy as a mechanism for coseismic fluid depressurization of a shallow fault zone. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth.

[23] Hill, R. G.*, Weingarten, M., Langenbruch, C., & Fialko, Y. (2024). Mitigation and optimization of induced seismicity using physics‐based forecasting. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 129(11). [link to article]

[22] Hung, R.*, Weingarten, M., & Manga, M. (2024) Very-Near-Field Coseismic Fault Pressure Drop and Delayed Postseismic Cross-Fault Flow Induced by Fault Damage From the 2018 M6.3 Hualien, Taiwan Earthquake, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 129(10).  [link to article]

[21] Hill, R. G.*, Trugman, D. T., & Weingarten, M. (2024). Separating injection-driven and earthquake-driven induced seismicity by combining a fully coupled poroelastic model with interpretable machine learning, Geophysical Research Letters, 51(18).  [link to article]

[20] Hill, R. G.*, M. Weingarten, Rockwell, T. R., Fialko, Y. (2023). Major southern San Andreas earthquakes modulated by lake-filling events, Nature, 618, 761-766.  [link to article]

[19] Hung, R. J.* & M. Weingarten (2023). Persistent groundwater reduction induced by dynamic stresses from the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake observed within a fractured aquifer near Ash Meadows, Nevada, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 605, 118034.  [link to article]

[18] Hung, R. J.*, Ma, K. F., Song, T. R. A., Lin, Y. Y., & M. Weingarten (2022). Observation of Temporal Variations in Seismic Anisotropy Within an Active Fault-Zone Revealed from the Taiwan Chelungpu-Fault Drilling Project, Journal of Geophysical-Research-Solid Earth, 127(4).  [link to article]

[17] Wang, R., M. Weingarten, Langenbruch, C. & Deshon, H.R. (2020). Introduction to the Special Section on Observations, Mechanisms and Hazards of Induced Seismicity, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America [link to article]

[16] Wang, S., Jiang, G, M. Weingarten, & Niu, Y. (2020). InSAR evidence indicates a link between fluid injection for salt mining and the 2019 Changning (China) earthquake sequence, Geophysical Research Letters [link to article]

[15] Qin, Y., Chen X., Walter, J. I., Haffener, J., Trugman, D. T., Carpenter, B. M., M. Weingarten, & Kolawole, F. (2019). Deciphering the stress state of seismogenic faults in Oklahoma and southern Kansas based on an improved stress map, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 124(12), 12920-12934. [link to article]

[14] Scanlon, B. R., Weingarten, M., Murray, K. E., & Reedy, R. C. (2019). Managing Basin‐Scale Fluid Budgets to Reduce Injection‐Induced Seismicity from the Recent US Shale Oil Revolution. Seismological Research Letters, 90(1), 171-182. [link to article]

[13] Langenbruch, C., Weingarten, M., & Zoback, M. D. (2018). Physics-based forecasting of man-made earthquake hazards in Oklahoma and Kansas. Nature communications, 9(1), 3946. ​[link to article]

[12] Levandowski, W., Weingarten, M., & Walsh III, R. (2018). Geomechanical sensitivities of injection‐induced earthquakes. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(17), 8958-8965. [link to article]

[11] Keranen, K. M., & Weingarten, M. (2018). Induced seismicity. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 46, 149-174. [link to article]

[10] Schoenball, M., Walsh, F. R., Weingarten, M., & Ellsworth, W. L. (2018). How faults wake up: the Guthrie-Langston, Oklahoma earthquakes. The Leading Edge, 37(2), 100-106. [link to article]

[9] Goebel, T. H. W., Weingarten, M., Chen, X., Haffener, J., & Brodsky, E. E. (2017). The 2016 Mw5. 1 Fairview, Oklahoma earthquakes: Evidence for long-range poroelastic triggering at >40 km from fluid disposal wells. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 472, 50-61. [link to article]

[8] Wang, C. Y., Manga, M., Shirzaei, M., Weingarten, M., & Wang, L. P. (2017). Induced seismicity in Oklahoma affects shallow groundwater. Seismological Research Letters, 88(4), 956-962. [link to article]

[7] Nakai, J. S., Weingarten, M., Sheehan, A. F., Bilek, S. L., & Ge, S. (2017). A possible causative mechanism of Raton Basin, New Mexico and Colorado earthquakes using recent seismicity patterns and pore pressure modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 122(10), 8051-8065. [link to article]

[6] Yeck, W. L., Weingarten, M., Benz, H. M., McNamara, D. E., Bergman, E. A., Herrmann, R. B., ... & Earle, P. S. (2016). Far‐field pressurization likely caused one of the largest injection induced earthquakes by reactivating a large preexisting basement fault structure. Geophysical Research Letters, 43(19). [link to article]

[5] Lee, J. Y., Weingarten, M., & Ge, S. (2016). Induced seismicity: the potential hazard from shale gas development and CO2 geologic storage. Geosciences Journal, 20(1), 137-148. [link to article]

[4] Yeck, W. L., Sheehan, A. F., Benz, H. M., Weingarten, M., & Nakai, J. (2016). Rapid response, monitoring, and mitigation of induced seismicity near Greeley, Colorado. Seismological Research Letters, 87(4), 837-847. [link to article]

[3] Weingarten, M.​, Ge, S., Godt, J. W., Bekins, B. A., & Rubinstein, J. L. (2015). High-rate injection is associated with the increase in US mid-continent seismicity. Science, 348(6241), 1336-1340. [link to article]

[2] Keranen, K. M., Weingarten, M., Abers, G. A., Bekins, B. A., & Ge, S. (2014). Sharp increase in central Oklahoma seismicity since 2008 induced by massive wastewater injection. Science, 345(6195), 448-451. [link to article]

[1] Weingarten, M., & Ge, S. (2014). Insights into water level response to seismic waves: A 24 year high‐fidelity record of global seismicity at Devils Hole. Geophysical Research Letters, 41(1), 74-80. [link to article]

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