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We went all the way to magnitude –2,” Weatherley says — an earthquake so small, he adds, that it involves a slip of only about 130 micrometres along a mere 90 c
by Pulcinella 3y ago
We went all the way to magnitude –2,” Weatherley says — an earthquake so small, he adds, that it involves a slip of only about 130 micrometres along a mere 90 centimetres of the fault zone. “You still get a pressure drop of 50%,” he notes.
Interesting. Is there a rough rule of thumb that translates magnitude into slip size and length?
- ChaseT 3y agoGot curious about this too, there's some graphs of the relationships on page 992 and 993 of this paper https://www.resolutionmineeis.us/sites/default/files/references/wells-coppersmith-1994.pdf https://www.resolutionmineeis.us/sites/default/files/referen...