What’s Shakin Midland? A Summary of West Texas Seismicity
Westside Houston
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Seminar Date: Jan 22 2026
Registration Opens: Jan 07 2026 - Jan 23 2026
Time: 11:30 AM - 01:00 PM (US CDT)
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Contact: QinShan “Shan” Yang (VP Westside, SPWLA Houston Chapter)
Corresponding: vpwestside@spwla-houston.org
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Speaker : Adam Haecker
Date : Thursday, Jan 22, 2026
Time : 11:30 am – 1:00 pm (US CDT)
Venue : SLB, 6350 West Sam Houston Parkway North, Houston, TX 77041
Admission : This activity will include a boxed lunch.
The seminar is sponsored by SLB so there
is no charge for registration,
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Parking Info : Guest parking is available free of charge. Upon arrival, please proceed to the front desk to check in
Please register by one day before the event to reserve lunch using the above provided link.
Contact : QinShan (Shan) Yang (SPWLA Houston VP Westside)
Corresponding vpwestside@spwla-houston.org
ABSTRACT:
In the past few years there have been a number of earthquakes in and around the Permian basin. This paper will review recent earthquake activity and several authors’ recent work such as Dvory, Ewing, Horne, Hennings, Lund, Snee and Zoback. What are these earthquakes, when did they start, how does it compare to gravity-magnetic and Insar data? In the Permian basin, the earthquakes have consistently shown normal and strike slip faulting regimes from moment tensor analysis. The stress orientation is predominantly east west, except in areas of the Delaware Basin where there are dramatic rotations in Reeves/Pecos Counties of Texas and Northern Lea and Eddy Counties of New Mexico. But is there a deeper cause to all the movement? (pun intended) This paper will examine the Precambrian lineaments that might be related. This paper will review latest fault mapping, fault slip potential, basement maps, insar data published by the BEG, and gravity and mag data with known anomalies.
BIOGRAPHY:
Adam Haecker works in Houston as a Director of Geoscience for Milestone Carbon, a company dedicated to delivering CO2 sequestration solutions. His research interests include supercritical CO2 relative permeability, advances in MICP, organic shale petrophysics, and rock mechanics. Prior to Milestone, Adam worked as a petrophysicist for Battelle Memorial Institute, Continental Resources, Chesapeake Energy, and Cabot Oil and Gas (now Coterra), as well as Weatherford Wireline as a field engineer. Adam graduated from Texas A&M in 2007 with a B.S. in Geology. He served as the Vice President of Finance, Secretary and Administration for the international SPWLA (2021-2023) and as North America Regional Director 1 (2018-2020). Adam speaks English and conversational Japanese.