Publication Date:
2017-04-03
Description:
Several fundamental questions (conundrums) about earthquakes and rocks are inexplicable in terms of conventional sub-critical geophysics. These questions have become so familiar that they are now generally
accepted as the way earthquakes and rocks behave and are not recognised as presenting conceptual difficulties. These conundrums are resolved by a new understanding of fluid-rock deformation, where
fluid-saturated microcracks in almost all rocks are so closely-spaced they verge on failure and hence are highly-compliant critical-systems which impose a range of new properties on conventional sub-critical
geophysics. This new understanding of fluid-rock deformation, this New Geophysics, allows earthquakes to be stress-forecast, and has implications and applications to many solid Earth developments.
Description:
Published
Description:
501–509
Description:
3.1. Fisica dei terremoti
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JCR Journal
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restricted
Keywords:
Conundrums resolved
;
Monitoring stress changes
;
Seismic anisotropy
;
Shear-wave splitting
;
Stress-accumulation
;
Stress-relaxation
;
04. Solid Earth::04.06. Seismology::04.06.99. General or miscellaneous
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04. Solid Earth::04.06. Seismology::04.06.03. Earthquake source and dynamics
Repository Name:
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
Type:
article
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