Delaware Basin Fault Slip Potential Shapefiles for Seismic Stability Analysis

ArcMap shape files contain basement-rooted and shallow normal faults and their deterministic fault slip potential. The data supports the 2021 paper 'Stability of the Fault Systems that Host Induced Earthquakes in the Delaware Basin of West Texas and Southeast New Mexico' by Hennings et al. The dataset was last updated on March 18, 2024.

Use Cases

• Model seismic hazard potential based on deterministic fault slip potential data.
• Map subsurface fault geometry based on the included basement-rooted and shallow normal fault shapefiles.
• Analyze the stability of fault systems for induced earthquake research in the Delaware Basin.

Strengths

• Data is directly linked to a peer-reviewed 2021 publication in The Seismic Record.
• Includes both fault geometry and calculated slip potential parameters.
• Last update recorded on March 18, 2024.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is specific to the Delaware Basin, limiting geographic generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Hennings, Peter; Texas Data Repository Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Likely derived from geological and geophysical analysis for the associated research paper.

Time Range

Publication date is 2021; temporal coverage of the underlying data is not specified.

Freshness

Last updated 2024-03-18 10:35:48

Geography

Delaware Basin of West Texas and Southeast New Mexico, United States.