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title: "Graviquake"
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source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graviquake"
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A graviquake is an earthquake occurring in an extensional tectonic setting, where the gravitational energy stored during the interseismic period is delivered by the collapse of a brittle upper crustal volume, slipping along a normal fault and generating the double couple recorded in the moment tensor solution.


== References ==