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On the mechanism of earthquakes

SEISMOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY GEOPHYSICS DIVISION DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH, WELLINGTON, New Zealand

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.

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