On the mechanism of earthquakes
- 1 October 1964
- journal article
- Published by Seismological Society of America (SSA) in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
- Vol. 54 (5A), 1283-1289
- https://doi.org/10.1785/bssa05405a1283
Abstract
An earthquake may be regarded as resulting from a sudden change in the condition of elastic equilibrium in the Earth. A new form of the general solution of the elastic wave equation relates seismic radiation to displacement from equilibrium. Calculation of the radiation pattern for a proposed mechanism is thus reduced to an elastostatic problem.Keywords
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