Earthquakes and friction laws

✍ Scribed by Scholz, Christopher H.

• Book ID: 109760952
• Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 296 KB
• Volume: 391
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0028-0836
• DOI: 10.1038/34097

✦ Synopsis

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.

Acknowledgements. I thank L. Sykes and B.