Locating the Focus of a Starting Earthquake

Alexander Ivanchin^*

Institute of Monitoring of Climatic and Ecological Systems (IMCES SB RAS), Tomsk, Russia.

DOI: 10.4236/ijg.2014.510096                

Abstract

This article describes a method of locating the focus of a starting earthquake based on the use of the elastic interaction energy. The method allows determining the focus location and its energy class as well as evaluating the stresses caused by it and observing its evolution.

Keywords

Earthquake Forecasting, Locating the Focus of Earthquake, Stresses of Earthquake

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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