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Locating the Focus of a Starting Earthquake
Institute of Monitoring of Climatic and Ecological Systems (IMCES SB RAS), Tomsk, Russia
- 1 Institute of Monitoring of Climatic and Ecological Systems (IMCES SB RAS), Tomsk, Russia
International Journal of Geosciences·Volume 05 (2014)·Pages 1137–1148·Published 17 September 2014·DOI10.4236/ijg.2014.510096
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Abstract
This article describes a method of locating the focus of a starting earthquake based on the use of the elastic interaction energy. The method allows determining the focus location and its energy class as well as evaluating the stresses caused by it and observing its evolution.
KeywordsEarthquake ForecastingLocating the Focus of EarthquakeStresses of Earthquake
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