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How does the elastic rebound theory explain the occurrence of earthquakes?
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∙ 11y ago
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.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 12y agoBecause 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).
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∙ 12y agoDuring elastic rebound, energy is released. Some of this energy travels as seismic waves. The waves then causes an earthquake.
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∙ 12y agoThe 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.
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∙ 11y agoWhen the rocks spring back into position of no strain at the moment of an earthquake triggering vibrations in the earths crust
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∙ 8y agoRocks are subjected to great forces, then suddenly break
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Who was the first to explain the actual mechanism by which earthquakes are generated?
# 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 mechanism by which rocks store and eventually release energy in the form of an earthquake is?
The answer is C: Elastic Rebound a fault displacement b stress fracture c elastic rebound or seismic rebound one of those
What theory explains the occurrence of earthquakes?
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.
Sudden return of elastically deformed rock?
elastic rebound
In the process of elastic rebound as a rock becomes stressed it first?
deforms
What can happen when rocks pass their elastic limit break and snap in elastic rebound?
Earthquakes will happen.
What can happen when rocks pass their elastic limit breaks and snap back in elastic rebound?
Earthquakes will happen.
What has the author Harry Fielding Reid written?
Harry Fielding Reid has written: 'The elastic-rebound theory of earthquakes' -- subject(s): Earthquakes
The elastic rebound theory for the origin of earthquakes was first proposed by?
H. Reid, following after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
What is a synonym for elastic rebound?
elastically
Who was the first to explain the actual mechanism by which earthquakes are generated?
# 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 mechanism by which rocks store and eventually release energy in the form of an earthquake is?
The answer is C: Elastic Rebound a fault displacement b stress fracture c elastic rebound or seismic rebound one of those
What theory explains the occurrence of earthquakes?
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.
Sudden return of elastically deformed rock?
elastic rebound
Elastic rebound is similar to what happens when you?
A stretched rubber band
What is elasticity and in-elasticity?
Inelastic things can not be stretched or do not rebound while elastic things will stretch, bounce, rebound, etc..
Why does land separate?
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.
