Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal articles

Balog-Way, D., McComas, K., Lambert, C., Cousse J., & Trutnevyte E. (2026). Public perceptions of enhanced geothermal systems: A cross-national study on affective imagery, familiarity, and support. Energy Policy, 208, 114917, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114917

Celli, N. L., Bean, C. J., & O'Brien, G. S. (2024). Full-waveform simulation of DAS records, response and cable-ground coupling. Geophysical Journal International, 236 (1), 659–674, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggad449

Ciardo, F., & Rinaldi, A. P. (2022). Impact of injection rate ramp-up on nucleation and arrest of dynamic fault slip. Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources, 8 (1), 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40948-021-00336-4

Clasen Repollés, V., Rinaldi, A. P., Ciardo, F., Passarelli, L., Karvounis, D., & Wiemer, S. (2025). Development of 1D hybrid hydromechanical models for real-time forecasting of induced seismicity rate, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 130, e2025JB031592. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JB031592.

Cousse, J., McComas, K., Lambert, C., Balog-Way, D., & Trutnevyte, E. (2025). How beliefs about tampering with nature influence support for Enhanced Geothermal Systems: A cross-national study. Risk Analysis, 45, 1152–1166. https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.17656

Ermert, L., Lanza, F., Shi, P., Ritz, V., Tuinstra, K., Finger, C., Muff, A., Obermann, A., Rinaldi, A. P., Meier, M-A., & Wiemer, S. (2025). Towards a digital twin for seismic waves of induced events in a geothermal reservoir. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, https://doi.org/10.1785/0120250125

Finger, C., & Löer, K. (2024). Depth of sudden velocity changes derived from multi-mode Rayleigh waves. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 129, e2023JB028322. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JB028322 

Finger, C., Roth, M. P., Dietl, M., Gotowik, A., Engels, N., Harrington, R. M., Knapmeyer-Endrun, B., Reicherter, K., Oswald, T.,  Reinsch, T.,  & Saenger E. H. (2023). The Weisweiler passive seismological network: optimised for state-of-the-art location and imaging methods, Earth System Science Data, 15, 6, 2655-2666. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-2655-2023

Fiori, R., Vergne, J., Schmittbuhl, J., & Zigone D. (2023). Monitoring induced microseismicity in an urban context using very small seismic arrays: The case study of the Vendenheim EGS project. Geophysics, 88 (5): WB71–WB87. https://doi.org/10.1190/geo2022-0620.1

Kunnas S., Wallinger S., Arnold, T., & Trutnevyte E. (2025). Preferably safe and small: Findings from a risk-cost-benefit analysis on Enhanced Geothermal Systems in Switzerland and Utah. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Transition, 8, 100125, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rset.2025.100125.

Kwiatek, G., Grigoratos, I., & Wiemer, S. (2024). Variability of Seismicity Rates and Maximum Magnitude for Adjacent Hydraulic Stimulations. Seismological Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1785/0220240043

Lanza, F.,  Tuinstra, K. B., Rinaldi, A. P., Rodríguez Tribaldos, V., Hopp, C., Bethmann, F., Dyer, B., Meier, P., Serbeto, F., Hertrich, M., Giardini, D., & Wiemer (2024). A Prospective Evaluation of Borehole DAS Technologies for Detecting and Locating out-of-network microseismicity, In Distributed Acoustic Sensing in Borehole Geophysics (eds Y. Li, R. Mellors and G. Zhan). https://doi.org/10.1002/9781394179275.ch16

Lambert, C. E., McComas, K., Balog-Way, D., Trutnevyte, E., & Cousse, J. (2025). The uncanny underground: Psychological and cultural associations of subterranean technologies for climate mitigation. Energy Research & Social Science,128, 104341, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.104341.

Mignan, A., Rinaldi, A. P., Lanza F., & Wiemer, S. (2024). A Multi-LASSO model to forecast induced seismicity at enhanced geothermal systems. Geoenergy Science and Engineering, 236, 212746. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoen.2024.212746.

Mohammadigheymasi, H., Shi, P., Tavakolizadeh, N., Xiao, Z., Mousavi, S.M., Matias, L., Pourvahab, M. and Fernandes, R., 2023. IPIML: A Deep-Scan Earthquake Detection and Location Workflow Integrating Pair-Input Deep Learning Model and Migration Location Method, in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 61, pp. 1-9, 2023, Art no. 5914109, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2023.3293914.

Nakata, N., Bi, Z., Qiu, H.,  Liu, C.-N., & Nakata, R. (2025). ML-aided induced seismicity processing and interpretation for enhanced geothermal systems. The Leading Edge, 44: 265–275.

Park, S. -E.,  Nakata, N., Oh, J. -W., & Dyer, B. (2025). P-Wave Velocity Model at Utah FORGE Geothermal Field Using Travel-Time Tomography of DAS-VSP Data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 63, 1-9, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2025.3553145.

Park, S. -E.,  Jung, Y-H., Nakata, N., Oh, J. -W., & Dyer, B. (2025). Enhancing P-wave velocity model at the Utah FORGE EGS site using traveltime tomography and full-waveform inversion of 2D DAS-VSP and 3D surface seismic data. The Leading Edge, 44: 256–264.

Passarelli, L., Cesca, S., Nooshiri, N., & Jónsson, S. (2022). Earthquake fingerprint of an incipient subduction of a bathymetric high. Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2022GL100326. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100326

Porras, J., Pecci, D., Bocchini, G. M., Gaviano, S., De Solda, M., Tuinstra, K., Lanza, F., Tognarelli, A., Stucchi, E., & Grigoli, F. (2024). A semblance-based microseismic event detector for DAS data. Geophysical Journal International, 236 (3), 1716–1727. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggae016

Ritz, V. A., Mizrahi, L., Clasen Repollés, V., Rinaldi, A. P., Hjörleifsdóttir, V., & Wiemer, S. (2024). Pseudo‐Prospective Forecasting of Induced and Natural Seismicity in the Hengill Geothermal Field. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 129(3). https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JB028402

Ritz, V.A., Rinaldi, A.P. & Wiemer, S. (2022). Transient evolution of the relative size distribution of earthquakes as a risk indicator for induced seismicity. Commununications Earth & Environment, 3, 249. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00581-9

Rodríguez Tribaldos, V., Hopp, C., Rinaldi, A. P., Tuinstra, K., Lanza, F., Ajo-Franklin, J., Kneafsey, T., Robertson, M., Guglielmi, Y., & Zappone, A. (2024).  Use of Distributed Acoustic Sensing and Distributed Strain Sensing Technologies for Geomechanical Characterization of Rock Mass Response in Mesoscale Experiments in Underground Laboratories. In Distributed Acoustic Sensing in Borehole Geophysics (eds Y. Li, R. Mellors and G. Zhan). https://doi.org/10.1002/9781394179275.ch30

Schultz, R. (2024). Inferring maximum magnitudes from the ordered sequence of large earthquakes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 382, 2276. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2023.0185

Schultz, R., Lanza, F., Dyer, B., Karvounis, D., Fiori, R., Shi, P., Ritz, V., Villiger, L., Meier, P., & Wiemer, S. (2025). The bound growth of induced earthquakes could de-risk hydraulic fracturing. Communications Earth & Environment, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02881-2.

Schultz, R., Muntendam-Bos, A., Zhou, W., Beroza, G. C., & Ellsworth, W.L. (2022). Induced seismicity red-light thresholds for enhanced geothermal prospects in the Netherlands. Geothermics, 106, 102580. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geothermics.2022.102580

Schultz, R. (2025). Reining‐in the spring‐slider with reinforcement learning. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth130 (3), e2024JB029697, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JB029697.

Shi, P., Grigoli, F., Lanza, F., Beroza, G. C., Scarabello, L., & Wiemer, S. (2022). MALMI: an automated earthquake detection and location workflow based on machine learning and waveform migration. Seismological Research Letters, 93 (5): 2467–2483. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220220071

Shi, P., Meier, M-A., Villiger, L., Tuinstra, K.B., Selvadurai, P. A., Lanza, F., Yuan, S., Obermann, A., Mesimeri, M., Munchmeyer, J., Bianchi, P., & Wiemer, S. (2024). From labquakes to megathrusts: Scaling deep learning based pickers over 15 orders of magnitude. Journal of Geophysical Research - Machine Learning and Computation, 1, e2024JH000220. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JH000220

Spampatti T., Brosch T., Trutnevyte E., & Hahnel U. (2024). A trust inoculation to protect public support of governmentally mandated actions to mitigate climate change. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 115, 104656.  

Tuinstra, K., Grigoli, F., Lanza, F., Rinaldi, A.P., Fichtner, A., & Wiemer, S. (2024). Locating clustered seismicity using Distance Geometry Solvers: applications for sparse and single-borehole DAS networks. Geophysical Journal International, 238, 2, 661–680, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggae168

Zhou, W., Lanza, F., Grigoratos, I., Schultz, R., Cousse, J., Trutnevyte, E., Muntendam-Bos, A., & Wiemer, S. (2024). Managing induced seismicity risks from enhanced geothermal systems: a good practice guideline. Reviews of Geophysics, 62, e2024RG000849. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024RG000849

 

Other Publications

Lanza, F., Link, K., Wiemer, S., & Zingg, O. (2022). DEEP Projekt – Innovationen für die Minderung von Risiken bei tiefen Geothermieprojekten. Geothermische Energie, Nr 102, pp 8-11. https://www.geothermie.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Bibliothek/GTE/Geothermische.Energie.Nr.102.pdf

 

Datasets & Codes

Celli, N. L., Bean, C. J., O’Brien, G.. (2024). Toolbox for full-waveform numerical simulation of DAS records. https://git.dias.ie/seismology/elm2d-das, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggad449.

Finger, C.,  Harrington, R., & Reinsch, T. (2022). Seismological Characterization of the Geothermal Field Laboratory Rhineland. GFZ Data Services. Other/Seismic Network. doi:10.14470/MO7576467356.

Finger, C. & Löer, K. B3AMpy: Beamforming Toolbox for three-component ambient seismic noise, http://dx.doi.org/10.24406/fordatis/306

Finger, C. Synthetic ambient seismic noise dataset for testing ambient-noise methods. http://dx.doi.org/10.24406/fordatis/302

Finger, C., Niemz, P., Ermert, L., & Lanza, F. (2024). Utah FORGE: Composite 3D Seismic Velocity Model. United States. https://dx.doi.org/10.15121/2305384. https://gdr.openei.org/submissions/1585.

Fryer, B., Lebihain, M., & Violay, M. (2022). Data Set: Single-well pore pressure preconditioning for Enhanced Geothermal System stimulation [Data set]. In Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7492868

Ritz, V. A. (2022). Husmuli Injection and Seismicity Data 2015-2020 [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7041552

 

All publications available from DEEP can be found here (Zenodo)