Mechanism of the Catastrophic Earthquake off the Coast of Sumatra in 2004

[miner]

Some thoughts on the causes and mechanism of such earthquakes:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ... id=3904229

 

[miner]

For some reason, seismologists still do not understand a simple postulate of mechanics: in order to break a bar of chocolate or a tectonic plate, a bending moment is required. And seismologists, like hypnotized zombies, go on about Mr. Reid's Elastic Recoil Theory.