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  1. Graviquake (Geology terminology ⛰️)

    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...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graviqua

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