The fault-block model and the tidal trigger mechanism of the seismic process (for example, the seismicity of the Crimea)
Journal: Geofizicheskiy Zhurnal
Year: 2010

Considering the fault-block model of seismic processes as a system in an unsteady state close to critical it is possible to assume the lunar-solar tides, as a "tectonic vibrator", play the role of trigger mechanism to the seismicity. Based on the complex analysis of seismic events of the Crimea and on the results of tidal stress-deformed state modeling of tectonosphere, caused by the tidal influence of the Moon and the Sun, the conclusion of tidal vibrating of essential influence as triggering m