Repeating earthquakes, or repeaters, affecting overlapping rupture patches with a similar focal mechanism, have important implications to track fault slip rates, aseismic deformation, slow earthquakes and earthquake nucleation processes. They are often d
Models Several physical processes have been considered to explain strong local stress anomalies and the occurrence of earthquakes with reversed or rotated focal mechanisms. Stress anomalies can be temporal or spatial, but a temporal stress perturbation is needed if the rupture occurs over the same pat...
To address the main question – how to keep the sediment surface close to sea-level across the entire basin during rifting – it is necessary to generate a source of buoyancy proportional to the degree of stretching. Subsequently, the buoyancy needs to be lost over a short period of time fo...
a) Transform plate boundary b) Continental rifting c) Subduction zone d) Continental Collision You have just heard a report on the radio of a series of very destructive earthquakes that occurred from 5 to 150 kilometers below the surface of the Earth and affected...