Taeho Kim

All Publications

• Evidence of Direct Fluid Connections between Hydraulic Fractures and Pre-existing Faults at the Cape Station EGS Project 51st Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering Kim, T., Dunham, E. M., Dadi, S., Segall, P., Gibson Jr., R. L., Titov, A., Chu, S., Norbeck, J. 2026
• Finite Size Effects on Seismicity Induced by Fluid Injection in a Discrete Fault Network With Rate-and-State Friction JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH Kim, T., Im, K., Avouac, J. 2025; 130 (7)

  View details for DOI 10.1029/2024JB030243

  View details for Web of Science ID 001521989600001

• Single-well based control and optimization of hydraulic stimulation and induced seismicity: Application to the Otaniemi geothermal project GEOTHERMICS Kim, T., Gutierrez-Oribio, D., Stefanou, I., Acosta, M., Avouac, J. 2025; 132

  View details for DOI 10.1016/j.geothermics.2025.103396

  View details for Web of Science ID 001521703300001

• Community-Driven Code Comparisons for Simulations of Fluid-Induced Aseismic Slip JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH Lambert, V. R., Erickson, B. A., Jiang, J., Dunham, E. M., Kim, T., Ampuero, J., Ando, R., Cappa, F., Dublanchet, P., Elbanna, A., Fialko, Y., Gabriel, A., Lapusta, N., Li, M., Marcum, J., May, D., Mia, M., Ozawa, S., Pranger, C., Romanet, P., Scuderi, M. M., van Dinther, Y., Yang, Y., Yun, J. 2025; 130 (4)

  View details for DOI 10.1029/2024JB030601

  View details for Web of Science ID 001457914400001

• Factors Controlling Rate and Magnitudes of Injection-Induced Earthquakes 49th Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering Kim, T., Avouac, J. 2024
• The break of earthquake asperities imaged by distributed acoustic sensing. Nature Li, J., Kim, T., Lapusta, N., Biondi, E., Zhan, Z. 2023; 620 (7975): 800-806

  Abstract

  Rupture imaging of megathrust earthquakes with global seismic arrays revealed frequency-dependent rupture signatures1-4, but the role of high-frequency radiators remains unclear3-5. Similar observations of the more abundant crustal earthquakes could provide critical constraints but are rare without ultradense local arrays6,7. Here we use distributed acoustic sensing technology8,9 to image the high-frequency earthquake rupture radiators. By converting a 100-kilometre dark-fibre cable into a 10,000-channel seismic array, we image four high-frequency subevents for the 2021 Antelope Valley, California, moment-magnitude 6.0 earthquake. After comparing our results with long-period moment-release10,11 and dynamic rupture simulations, we suggest that the imaged subevents are due to the breaking of fault asperities-stronger spots or pins on the fault-that substantially modulate the overall rupture behaviour. An otherwise fading rupture propagation could be promoted by the breaking of fault asperities in a cascading sequence. This study highlights how we can use the extensive pre-existing fibre networks12 as high-frequency seismic antennas to systematically investigate the rupture process of regional moderate-sized earthquakes. Coupled with dynamic rupture modelling, it could improve our understanding of earthquake rupture dynamics.

  View details for DOI 10.1038/s41586-023-06227-w

  View details for PubMedID 37532935

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• Stress-Based and Convolutional Forecasting of Injection-Induced Seismicity: Application to the Otaniemi Geothermal Reservoir Stimulation JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH Kim, T., Avouac, J. 2023; 128 (4)

  View details for DOI 10.1029/2022JB024960

  View details for Web of Science ID 000963763700001