Earthquakes and friction laws

Christopher H. Scholz
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Christopher H. Scholz: Columbia University

Nature, 1998, vol. 391, issue 6662, 37-42

Abstract: Abstract Earthquakes have long been recognized as resulting from a stick–slip frictional instability. The development of a full constitutive law 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.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1038/34097

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