Introduction

Abstract

For purposes of motivating preparation for the 4th International Symposium on Rockbursts and Seismicity in Mines, held in Krakow, Poland in August 1997, a workshop was held on June 18, 1996, as part of the 2nd North American Rock Mechanics Symposium (NARMS′96), in Montreal, Québec, Canada. Twenty-eight reports on different cases of triggered and induced seismicity were presented at this workshop which was attended by over 50 professionals. A similar one-day workshop organized by Art McGarr in 1992 (materials published in Pure and Applied Geophysics, vol. 139, nos. 3/4, 1992) was quite effective in “setting the stage” for the 3rd International Symposium. The Montreal Workshop proved to be similarly stimulating and provocative with some lively interdisciplinary discussion between scientists and engineers studying different types of seismic events due to completely different causes. Some of the flavor of these debates can be gleaned from the transcript of the panel discussion, published here, that took place in the late afternoon of the workshop.