Failure of asperities by hydraulically induced fatigue: a model for the generation of intraplate seismicity
A model is proposed in which intraplate earthquakes are triggered by the tensile failure of asperities by subcritical crack growth. The principle subcritical crack growth mechanism is fatigue driven by cyclic tensile stresses within an asperity. Cyclic stresses result from cyclic pore pressure varia...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/43826 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07212010-020132/ |