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- The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting
- Frontispiece
- The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Reviews
- Contents
- Preface to the first edition
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the third edition
- Symbols
- Chapter One Brittle fracture of rock
- Chapter Two Rock friction
- Chapter Three Mechanics of faulting
- Chapter Four Mechanics of earthquakes
- Chapter Five The seismic cycle
- Chapter Six Seismotectonics
- Chapter Seven Earthquake prediction and hazard analysis
- References
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
Chapter Four - Mechanics of earthquakes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 December 2018
- The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting
- Frontispiece
- The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Reviews
- Contents
- Preface to the first edition
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the third edition
- Symbols
- Chapter One Brittle fracture of rock
- Chapter Two Rock friction
- Chapter Three Mechanics of faulting
- Chapter Four Mechanics of earthquakes
- Chapter Five The seismic cycle
- Chapter Six Seismotectonics
- Chapter Seven Earthquake prediction and hazard analysis
- References
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
Summary
Friction of faults is often unstable, and slip occurs rapidly as a rupture dynamically propagates over the fault surface. These sudden motions generate seismic waves, and this is the mechanism of the most common and important type of earthquake. Seismicity is thus the short-timescale phenomenon of brittle tectonics. In this chapter we discuss the dynamics of faulting and review the most important attributes of earthquakes from the point of view of the rupture process.
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- The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting , pp. 166 - 227Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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