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.
Because elastic Rebound cause earthquakes(During elastic rebound, energy is released, some of this energy travels as seismic waves, and then the waves causes an earthquake).
During elastic rebound, energy is released. Some of this energy travels as seismic waves. The waves then causes an earthquake.
The elastic rebound theory is an explanation for the sudden release of energy that causes earthquakes when deformed rocks fracture and rebound to their original undeformed condition.
When the rocks spring back into position of no strain at the moment of an earthquake triggering vibrations in the earths crust
Rocks are subjected to great forces, then suddenly break
# The elastic rebound theory was first proposed by: Reid, H.F., 1910, The California earthquake of April 18, 1906: The mechanics of the earthquake: Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication 87 (v.2), 192 p.
The answer is C: Elastic Rebound a fault displacement b stress fracture c elastic rebound or seismic rebound one of those
Earthquakes are tremors or vibrations in the Earth's crust that are caused by the build up or accumulation of pressure (more correctly termed stress). This accumulation of stress causes the rocks that make up the crust to deform elastically. This is very similar to what happens when you squash or stretch a spring and causes a form of energy to be stored in the rocks of the crust - technically described as elastic potential energy. When this stress gets to large, it exceeds the strength of the rocks in the crust and causes a brittle failure. Brittle failures are failures where fractures form through the material. This sudden brittle failure causes all of the elastic potential energy to be released at one time in the form of seismic waves, just as if a spring or elastic band that was being stretched suddenly snapped.
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Earthquakes will happen.
Earthquakes will happen.
Harry Fielding Reid has written: 'The elastic-rebound theory of earthquakes' -- subject(s): Earthquakes
H. Reid, following after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
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# The elastic rebound theory was first proposed by: Reid, H.F., 1910, The California earthquake of April 18, 1906: The mechanics of the earthquake: Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication 87 (v.2), 192 p.
The answer is C: Elastic Rebound a fault displacement b stress fracture c elastic rebound or seismic rebound one of those
Earthquakes are tremors or vibrations in the Earth's crust that are caused by the build up or accumulation of pressure (more correctly termed stress). This accumulation of stress causes the rocks that make up the crust to deform elastically. This is very similar to what happens when you squash or stretch a spring and causes a form of energy to be stored in the rocks of the crust - technically described as elastic potential energy. When this stress gets to large, it exceeds the strength of the rocks in the crust and causes a brittle failure. Brittle failures are failures where fractures form through the material. This sudden brittle failure causes all of the elastic potential energy to be released at one time in the form of seismic waves, just as if a spring or elastic band that was being stretched suddenly snapped.
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.