Research Directed toward the Use of Long and Intermediate Period Seismic Waves for the Identification of Seismic Sources
Abstract
During this period, significant advances have been made in our understanding of the physical processes of natural seismic sources. Intra-plate earthquakes -- the isolated events which occur in the relatively seismically inactive interiors of lithospheric plates -- have been found to display a pattern whose consistency on a global scale is emerging. This pattern provides important constraints on the mechanisms possible for driving plate tectonics as well as reducing the changes of intra-plate earthquakes being misidentified as explosive sources. The intra-plate earthquake swarm at Blue Mt. Lake, N.Y. provided evidence that helped evoke the dilatancy model of the physical process of rock failure.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 1973
- Accession Number
- AD0774472
Entities
People
- Keith Mccamy
Organizations
- Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory