Earthquakes and friction laws
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Scholz, Christopher H.
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Article
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1998
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Nature Publishing Group
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English
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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 eart