Earthquakes and friction laws
Abstract
Earthquakes have long been recognized as resulting from a stick-slip frictional instability. The development of a full constitutive law for rock friction now shows that the gamut of earthquake phenomena-seismogenesis and seismic coupling, pre- and post-seismic phenomena, and the insensitivity of earthquakes to stress transients-all appear as manifestations of the richness of this friction law.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- January 1998
- DOI:
- 10.1038/34097
- Bibcode:
- 1998Natur.391...37S