Fracture Caging in a Porous Lab Fault: Experiment Dataset (sensor coordinates added)

Update: Sensor coordinates and make that were missing from the previous version were added. 

We conducted shear fracture caging experiments at the Fractured Earth Laboratory to investigate the potential of fracture caging in limiting induced seismicity in the fault. The experiments involved an injection of fluid into a repeatably constructed assembly of two aluminum wedges bonded by plaster, which is critically loaded for shear-slip. Meanwhile, fluid production is enabled using a five-spot pattern of pre-drilled boundary wells (i.e., a fracture cage). Injected fluid was a gear oil with 8.81 cP viscosity at room temperature . Syringe pumps were used to control and measure the injection rate, volume, and pressure. Microseismic activity was recorded using 16 acoustic emission (AE) sensors that were equally split into high-magnitude and high-sensitivity acquisition systems. Over the course of experiments, raw data collected includes AE waveforms from high-magnitude and high-sensitivity systems, post-mortem shear fracture photos, and synchronized timeseries data for 8 tests, which are presented here.