At a slip fault the plates on either side of the fault are under a force that impels them to move past each other, but restrained by friction and the interlocking of their shapes. These opposing forces distort the rocks of the plate edges near the fault, producing elastic deformation.
When the strain becomes great enough to overcome static friction or to break the interlocking sections of rock, or when any shock occurs that jars the fault and allows it to start moving, the friction between the plates will be reduced to dynamic friction (for so long as the plates keep moving). Then elastic forces in the distorted rocks will cause them to spring suddenly back to their proper shapes, producing movement of the rocks either side of the fault, parallel to the fault, of sometimes several metres.
This sideways movement releases a great deal of elastic potential energy, producing the S-waves of an earthquake.
Elastic rebound caused a problem for seismologists monitoring underground nuclear tests before the Comprehensivve Test Ban Treaty came into effect. An explosion itself produces only P-waves, which ought to have allowed seismologist to tell underground explosions apart from earthquakes. But in practice the P-waves from the explosions could jar elastically-deformed faults into movement, which produced S-waves from the elastic rebound.
H. Reid, following after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
A stretched rubber band
A stretched rubber band
an elastic rebound
elastic rebound theory
Earthquakes will happen.
Earthquakes will happen.
The sudden return of elastically deformed rock to sit original shape is called elastic rebound. Elastic rebound happens when stress on rock along a fault becomes so grat that the rock breaks or fails. This failure causes the rocks on either side of the fault to jerk past one another. During this sudden motion, large amounts of energy are released. This energy travels through rock as seismic waves. These waves cause earthquakes. The strength of an earthquake is related to the amount of energy that is released during elastic rebound.
Harry Fielding Reid has written: 'The elastic-rebound theory of earthquakes' -- subject(s): Earthquakes
H. Reid, following after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
iT CHANGES THE SHAPE OF THE ROCK BUT DOES NOT CAUSE EARTHQUAKES
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The answer is C: Elastic Rebound a fault displacement b stress fracture c elastic rebound or seismic rebound one of those
elastic rebound
A stretched rubber band
Inelastic things can not be stretched or do not rebound while elastic things will stretch, bounce, rebound, etc..
There is a theory called plate tetonics, which is basically that the earth has many different plates that sometimes move. When they move, they take the land above them with them. The elastic rebound theory is one of the reasons for earthquakes.