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A successful stress-forecast: an addendum to ‘Stress-forecasting: a viable alternative to earthquake prediction in a dynamic Earth’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2011

Stuart Crampin
Stuart Crampin
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Edinburgh, Grant Institute, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JW, Scotland, U.K. e-mail: [email protected]
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Extract

In a recent issue of this journal, Crampin (1998) suggested that analysing seismic shear-wave splitting along appropriate ray paths can be used to monitor the build-up of stress before earthquakes. If the source and recording geometry are suitable, this procedure, known as stress-forecasting, allows the approximate time and magnitude, but not the location, of future large earthquakes to be estimated.

Keywords

forecasting earthquakesfracture criticalityshear-wave splittingstress-monitoring sites.
Type
Research Article
Information
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 89 , Issue 4 , 1998 , pp. 231
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1998

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