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Stuart Crampin, Yuan Gao. The Physics Underlying Gutenberg-Richter in the Earth and in the Moon. Journal of Earth Science, 2015, 26(1): 134-139. doi: 10.1007/s12583-015-0513-3
Citation: Stuart Crampin, Yuan Gao. The Physics Underlying Gutenberg-Richter in the Earth and in the Moon. Journal of Earth Science, 2015, 26(1): 134-139. doi: 10.1007/s12583-015-0513-3
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The Physics Underlying Gutenberg-Richter in the Earth and in the Moon

doi: 10.1007/s12583-015-0513-3
  • 1.

    British Geological Survey, Edinburgh EH9 3LA, Scotland UK

  • 2.

    School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh EH9 3FW, Scotland UK

  • 3.

    Institute of Earthquake Science, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing 100036, China

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  • Corresponding author: Stuart Crampin, scrampin@ed.ac.uk
  • Received Date: 29 Mar 2014
  • Accepted Date: 21 Oct 2014
  • Publish Date: 01 Jan 2015
    Abstract
  • The linear Gutenberg-Richter relationship is well-established. In any region of the Earth, the logarithm of the number of earthquakes, greater than any magnitude, is proportional to magnitude. This means that the underlying physics is non-linear and not purely elastic. This nonlinear physics has not been resolved. Here we suggest that a new understanding of fluid-rock deformation provides the physics underlying Gutenberg-Richter: where the fluid-saturated microcracks in almost all in situ rocks are so closely-spaced that they verge on failure and fracture, and hence are critical-systems which impose fundamentally-new properties on conventional sub-critical geophysics. The observation of linear Gutenberg-Richter relationship in moonquakes suggests that residual fluids exist at depth in the Moon.

     

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