a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
Examples of 'elastic rebound' in a sentence
elastic rebound
The attempt has been made on the basis of the intrinsic method and of the elastic rebound theory.
P. E. VALLE 1969, 'Tentativo di controllo del periodo sismico siciliano iniziato il 14 Gennaio 1968',Annals of Geophysicshttp://www.annalsofgeophysics.eu/index.php/annals/article/view/5081. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)