Elements of engineering seismology
Earthquake-resistant buildings
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Elements of engineering seismology
Earthquake-resistant buildings

Authors : Jacques BETBEDER-MATIBET, Jean-Louis DOURY

Publication date: May 10, 1997 | Lire en français

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1. Elements of engineering seismology

1.1 Causes of earthquakes

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1.1.1 Plate tectonics

Our understanding of the mechanism responsible for the earth's seismic activity is recent, since it was only in 1968 that J. Morgan, D. McKenzie and X. Le Pichon formulated the theory of plate tectonics, which provides a coherent kinematic model of crustal deformation

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