Earthquake Prediction and Rock Mechanics

Front Matter....Pages i-iii
 V p / V s Anomalies in Dilatant Rock Samples....Pages 1-23
 V p / V s in Saturated Granodiorite Loaded to Failure....Pages 25-29
Acoustic Emission During High-Temperature Frictional Sliding....Pages 31-43
The Study of Precursors of Failure Under Biaxial Compression....Pages 45-49
Magnetism of Rocks and Volumetric Strain in Uniaxial Failure Tests....Pages 51-61
Stable Sliding Preceding Stick-Slip on Fault Surfaces in Granite at High Pressure....Pages 63-68
The Sliding Characteristics of Sandstone on Quartz Fault-Gouge....Pages 69-86
Clay Gouges in the San Andreas Fault System and their Possible Implications....Pages 87-95
An Analysis of Local Changes in Gravity Due to Deformation....Pages 97-106
Mean Sea Level Before and After Some Great Strike-Slip Earthquakes....Pages 107-118
Dilatancy and Crustal Uplift....Pages 119-125
Aseismic Faulting Following the 1973 Nemuro-Oki Earthquake, Hokkaido, Japan (a possibility)....Pages 127-139
Dilatancy Model and Empirical Formulas for an Earthquake Area....Pages 141-147
Theory of Earthquakes....Pages 149-168
Two Models for Earthquake Forerunners....Pages 169-181
A Theoretical Model of the Dilatant Behavior of a Brittle Rock....Pages 183-196
A Note on the Constitutive Law for Dilatancy....Pages 197-206
Dilatancy-Related Electrical Resistivity Changes in Rocks....Pages 207-217
Precursory and Coseismic Resistivity Changes....Pages 219-227
Application of Electric Method to the Tentative Short-Term Forecast of Kamchatka Earthquakes....Pages 229-235
The Nature of Surface Tilt Along 85 km of the San Andreas Fault — Preliminary Results from a 14-Instrument Array....Pages 237-249
Possible Premonitory Strain Changes Associated with an Earthquake Swarm Near Mina, Nevada....Pages 251-256
Crustal Structure and Temporal Velocity Change in Southern California....Pages 257-280
Time Variations in Teleseismic Residuals Prior to the Magnitude 5.1 Bear Valley Earthquake of February 24, 1972....Pages 281-292
Quarry Blast Sources and Earthquake Prediction: The Parkfield, California, Earthquake of June 28, 1966....Pages 293-296
A Search for Precursors to the Sitka, 1972, Earthquake: Sea Level, Magnetic Field, and P -Residuals....Pages 297-309
Deep Borehole Observation of the Earth’s Crust Activities Around Tokyo — Introduction of the Iwatsuki Observatory....Pages 311-320
Hydraulic Fracturing Stress Measurements near the Hohenzollern-Graben-Structure, SW Germany....Pages 321-330