PHASE (Physics and Application of Seismic Emissions) is an independent, non-profit, pure research project at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Since 2004, an international team of scientists and students has performed research towards a better understanding of the physics of fluid-induced microseismicity and the physical fundamentals for microseismic monitoring. With numerical and theoretical studies and with the help of industry datasets, PHASE researchers have developed the seismicity-based reservoir-characterization approach and methods to assess seismic hazards.

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The main research directions of the PHASE project are:

• Triggering mechanisms of induced seismicity
• Modeling and imaging of induced seismicity
• Interpretation and visualization of microseismic data combined with 3-D reflection seismic images
• Seismicity-based methods for estimating hydraulic properties of rocks
• Combining microseismic data and reservoir simulations
• Estimating seismic criticality of rocks
• Physics and monitoring of hydraulic fracturing
• Physics and monitoring of poroelastic stress relaxation
• Stress and pore pressure related numerical and theoretical rock physics
• Effective properties of fractured reservoirs