Earthquakes and friction laws

被引:1721
作者
Scholz, CH [2 ]
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[1] Columbia Univ, Dept Earth & Environm Sci, Palisades, NY 10964 USA
[2] Lamont Doherty Earth Observ, Palisades, NY 10964 USA
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10.1038/34097
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Earthquakes have long been recognized as resulting from a stick-slip frictional instability. The development of a full constitutive raw 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.
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