Frohlich C. Deep Earthquakes

Cambridge University Press, 2006, 573 pages, ISBN: 0521828694Deep earthquakes (earthquakes with origins deeper than 60 km) are of scientific importance and account for approximately one-quarter of all earthquakes. They are occasionally very large and damaging yet provide much of the data that constrain our knowledge of Earth structure and dynamics. This book opens with an explanation of what deep earthquakes are, their significance to science and how they were first discovered. Later chapters provide a description of deep earthquake distribution and clustering in both time and space; a review of observations about source properties; and a discussion of theories for the origin of deep earthquakes. The book concludes with a comprehensive literature review of terrestrial and lunar deep seismicity. Deep Earthquakes presents a comprehensive, topical, historical, and geographical summary of deep earthquakes and related phenomena. It will be of considerable interest to researchers and graduate students in the fields of earthquake seismology and deep Earth structure.Background and introductory material
The big, the bad, and the curious
What, where, how, and why?
The history of deep earthquakesProperties of intermediate- and deep-focus earthquakes
The distributions of depth and size
Spatial and temporal clusteringThe mechanism of deep earthquakes
The deep earthquake source
The mechanics of deep earthquakesWhy bother about deep earthquakes?
Are deep earthquakes useful?
Answered and unanswered questionsGeographic summary
A geographic summary of deep earthquakes