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In 2014, the formerly aseismic city of Cushing experienced a Mw 4.0 and 4.3 induced earthquake sequence due to wastewater injection. Since then, an M4+ earthquake sequence has occurred annually (October 2014, September 2015, November 2016). Thus far, damage to critical infrastructure has been minimal; however, a larger earthquake could pose significant risk to the Cushing Hub. In addition to inducing earthquakes, wastewater injection also threatens the Cushing Hub through gradual surface uplift. To characterize the impact of wastewater injection on critical infrastructure, we use Differential Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (DInSAR), a satellite radar technique, to observe ground surface displacement in Cushing before and during the induced Mw 5.0 event. Here, we process interferograms of Single Look Complex (SLC) radar data from the European Space Agency (ESA) Sentinel-1A satellite. The preearthquake interferograms are used to create a time series of cumulative surface displacement, while the coseismic interferograms are used to invert for earthquake source characteristics. The time series of surface displacement reveals 4\u20135.5 cm of uplift across Cushing over 17 months. The coseismic interferogram inversion suggests that the 2016 Mw 5.0 earthquake is shallower than estimated from seismic inversions alone. This shallower source depth should be taken into account in future hazard assessments for regional infrastructure. In addition, monitoring of surface deformation near wastewater injection wells can be used to characterize the subsurface dynamics and implement measures to mitigate damage to critical installations.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs10111715","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,10,31]],"date-time":"2018-10-31T11:55:41Z","timestamp":1540986941000},"page":"1715","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":15,"title":["Hazard Implications of the 2016 Mw 5.0 Cushing, OK Earthquake from a Joint Analysis of Damage and InSAR Data"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3219-7069","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Magali","family":"Barba-Sevilla","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, UCB 216, Boulder, CO 80309, USA"},{"name":"Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, UCB 399, Boulder, CO 80309, USA"}]},{"given":"Bridger W.","family":"Baird","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, 1111 Engineering Dr., Boulder, CO 80309, USA"}]},{"given":"Abbie B.","family":"Liel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, 1111 Engineering Dr., Boulder, CO 80309, USA"}]},{"given":"Kristy F.","family":"Tiampo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, UCB 216, Boulder, CO 80309, USA"},{"name":"Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, UCB 399, Boulder, CO 80309, USA"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,10,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Sircar, S., Power, D., Randell, C., Youden, J., and Gill, E. 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