If the effect of a reservoir is to bring a fault zone gradually to failure and trigger an earthquake, then it is reasonable that rapidly fluctuating tidal stresses may influence the time of the induced earthquakes. An examination of earthquakes from eight reservoirs shows that earthquakes at six sit
Investigations of the behaviour of reservoir-associated earthquakes
β Scribed by H.K. Gupta; B.K. Rastogi
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1974
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 578 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0013-7952
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