Seismic energy generated by a sudden volume change
- 1 October 1964
- journal article
- Published by Seismological Society of America (SSA) in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
- Vol. 54 (5A) , 1291-1298
- https://doi.org/10.1785/bssa05405a1291
Abstract
The recent suggestion that sudden phase transitions may provide a mechanism for earthquakes is examined mathematically for the simple case of sudden change of volume. Such a transition, even for a small density change, offers a much more concentrated source of seismic energy than does sudden faulting.Keywords
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