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  "path": "/editor-highlights/pre-existing-structure-and-stress-shape-geothermal-induced-seismicity",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-02T12:00:00.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "Editors' Highlights",
    "China",
    "Earth science",
    "earthquakes",
    "faults",
    "geothermal energy",
    "Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth",
    "seismology",
    "NEDC",
    "Diao et al., 2025",
    "Zhang, Yan, et al., 2018",
    "Feng et al. [2026]"
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  "textContent": "(a) Map view of the Gonghe Basin. The upper left inset shows the location of the Gonghe Basin in the broader Tibetan Plateau (red square). Cyan circles show epicenters of earthquakes during January 2009–July 2021 collected from the National Earthquake Data Center (NEDC). Beachballs represent focal mechanisms that mark M≥ 5 aftershocks of the 26 April 1990 Ms 7.0 event (compiled from Diao et al., 2025). All historic large events show reverse faulting mechanism, consistent with the collision between the Indian and Eurasia plate that produced the Tibetan Plateau. The black square shows the EGS site, where the lower right map inset shows the nodal‐array distribution (cyan triangles, numbered s01 to s20), and the lower left inset shows the well trajectories (located between stations s03 and s01). (b) The red (S-wave) and blue (P-wave) dashed lines show the velocity model used for this study, the grey dashed line shows the density variations with depth, and the background shows the temperature distribution with depth. (c) The projected trajectories along depth of the three treatment wells in (a), and the strata are marked as: Quaternary (Q) sandstone, Neogene (N1, N2) mudstone, and Triassic (T3) granite ( Zhang, Yan, et al., 2018). Credit:  Feng et al. [2026], Figure 1",
  "title": "Pre-Existing Structure and Stress Shape Geothermal-Induced Seismicity"
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