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Earthquake research has been one of the most challenging fields of geophysics. Apart from the disastrous effects of large earthquakes, their occurrence is the most striking evidence for the earth’s crust not being a static object, but exposed to permanent deformation.
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Hergarten, S. (2002). Earthquakes and Stick-Slip Motion. In: Self-Organized Criticality in Earth Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04390-5_7
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