Utah FORGE: Report and Associated Data from Measuring and Modeling Deformation 2018 through 2024

The report provided here describes research activities between August 16th, 2018 and July 30th, 2024. The goals of the research activities are to conduct an Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) analysis and Ground Surface Deformation Modeling at the Utah FORGE site. InSAR data have been obtained from two satellite missions and combined pair-wise into interferograms to assess ground deformation. These InSAR datasets are compiled below as links to their respective destinations in the GDR.

The project found that the InSAR data analyzed do not show any measurable deformation in the area immediately surrounding the FORGE wells and no vertical surface displacement that could be measurable by InSAR or GPS is expected from the stimulation experiments conducted at the site in 2023 or 2024. The report goes on to state the expected vertical displacement at the Earth's surface is less than 1 millimeter, based on modeling using an analytic solution. Hydromechanical modeling also predicts that the magnitude of the deformation produced by injection experiments is too small to be measured by InSAR or GPS.

本报告详述了自2018年8月16日至2024年7月30日期间进行的研究活动。研究活动的目标在于对犹他州FORGE场地进行干涉合成孔径雷达（InSAR）分析和地表形变建模。通过两项卫星任务获取的InSAR数据已被配对组合成干涉图，以评估地表形变。以下列出了InSAR数据集，作为至GDR（地球科学数据资源共享网）相应目的地的链接。研究项目发现，所分析的InSAR数据在该FORGE井周围区域未显示出任何可测量的形变，且预计2023年或2024年在该场地进行的刺激实验不会产生可通过InSAR或GPS测量的垂直地表位移。报告进一步指出，根据解析解建模，预计地球表面垂直位移将小于1毫米。水力机械建模亦预测，由注入实验产生的形变幅度过小，无法通过InSAR或GPS进行测量。