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The largest earthquake occurred within a cluster of high stress drop events, and involved cascading failure of several sub-events.

EnviroSeis has direct ties to real-time geohazards monitoring and provides timely warnings for the hazard mitigation and assessment.

Nowadays, the places in world with real-time seismic networks are ready to implement EnviroSeis.

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The major topic focused on here is how to provide relevant information on the deep-seated landslides associated to the three-time stages: Pre-slide: (1) seismic precursor and (2) seismic velocity changes corresponding to basal sliding behavior.

This is an area that not evidenced any active seismicity before 2016.

We monitor this phenomenon as it is similar to other episodes of seasonal seismicity in other regions of Brazil, under similar aquifer and host rock conditions, commonly associated with those of the Parana Basin.

This induced seismicity is seemingly triggered yearly during the high-rain season in Southeast Brazil, between December and May, and ceases as soon as the heavy rain season ends each year.

In these periods of increased precipitation during the annual onset of seismicity, we have found more than 1500 seismic events of magnitudes up to M2.0 in since 2017, after we deployed seismic stations in this area.

Using phase weighing earthquake locations algorithms, we examine the clustering of the seismicity around recently drilled water wells, and seismicity rate changes, as it is modified by variations in the precipitation.

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We perform full moment tensor analysis when possible to find the seismic activity is not only clustering horizontally, but at depth as well.

We identify two main regions where events are more frequently occurring and have mostly prevalent sub-horizontal dipping planes: The shallow events between 100 and 200 m and from 600 to 700 m depth.

This phenomenon is facilitated mainly by the inadequate water well perforation practices in the region.

Uncased water wells promote the transport of both rainwater and groundwater from upper to lower aquifers during higher precipitation months.

This implies that the confined aquifer characteristics of intermittent sandstone layers and fractured basalt rocks from the Parana Basin condition the characteristics of the seismicity occurring in this region of Brazil.

This has limited our understanding of earthquake rupture, as well as the spatiotemporal variations of fault strength.

In this study, we investigate the resolution limits of spectral analysis based on synthetic spectra with similar magnitude range, average stress drop and frequency bands to a fluid-injection induced earthquake sequence in Oklahoma near Guthrie.

Synthetic tests using joint spectral fitting method define the resolution limit of corner frequency as a function of maximum frequency for both individual spectra and averaged spectra from multiple stations.

Synthetic tests based on stacking analysis find that the improved stacking approach can recover the true input stress drop if the corner frequencies are within the resolution limit defined by joint spectral fitting.

The improved approach is applied to the Guthrie sequence, different wave types and different signal-to-noise criteria are examined to understand the stability of the stress drop distributions.

The results suggest no systematic scaling relationship for stress drop for M 3.1 earthquakes, but larger events M3.5 tend to have higher average stress drops.

Results with lower signal-to-noise ratio requirement and direct P-wave tend to have higher scaling factor compared to results with high signal-to-noise ratio and S-waves.

Comparison of results from several different methods suggest that the average stress drop is well resolved and not subject to tradeoff with attenuation.

Some robust spatiotemporal variations can be linked to triggering processes and indicate possible stress heterogeneity within the fault zone.

Tight clustering of low stress drop events at the beginning stage of the sequence suggests that pore pressure influences earthquake source processes.

Events at shallow depth have much lower stress drop compared to deeper events.

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