Deep Earthquakes

A comprehensive, topical, historical, and geographical summary of deep earthquakes and related phenomena.

Cliff Frohlich (Author)

9780521123969, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 17 December 2009

592 pages
24.4 x 17 x 3 cm, 0.93 kg

Review of the hardback: '… easy to read, whether one is a seismological beginner, a graduate student or researcher … Even the world's leading seismologists may profit from the book since it systematises prevalent findings and provides an extensive list of references. Collecting this list must have been a titanic work just by itself. … presents comprehensive information on the phenomena, state-of-the-art 2006 … worth its price.' Pure and Applied Geophysics

Deep earthquakes (earthquakes with origins deeper than 60 km) are of scientific importance and account for approximately one-quarter of all earthquakes. They are occasionally very large and damaging yet provide much of the data that constrain our knowledge of Earth structure and dynamics. This book opens with an explanation of what deep earthquakes are, their significance to science and how they were first discovered. Later chapters provide a description of deep earthquake distribution and clustering in both time and space; a review of observations about source properties; and a discussion of theories for the origin of deep earthquakes. The book concludes with a comprehensive literature review of terrestrial and lunar deep seismicity. Deep Earthquakes presents a comprehensive, topical, historical, and geographical summary of deep earthquakes and related phenomena. It will be of considerable interest to researchers and graduate students in the fields of earthquake seismology and deep Earth structure.

1. Preface
Part I. Background and Introductory Material: 1. The big, the bad, and the curious
2. What, where, how, and why?
3. The history of deep earthquakes
Part II. Properties of Deep and Intermediate Earthquakes: 4. The distributions of depth and sizes
5. Spatial and temporal clustering
Part III. The Mechanism of Deep Earthquakes: 6. The deep earthquakes source
7. The mechanics of deep earthquakes
Part IV. Why Bother About Deep Earthquakes?: 8. Are deep earthquakes useful?
9. Answered and unanswered questions
Part V. Geographic Summary: 10. A geographic summary of deep earthquakes
Index.

Subject Areas: Volcanology & seismology [RBC], Geophysics [PHVG]