In geology, the elastic rebound theory was the first theory to satisfactorily explain earthquakes.
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According to the elastic rebound theory of, eventually the deformation ( strain ) becomes great enough that something breaks, usually at an existing fault.
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He would call his new theory Elastic Rebound, and it remains even into the 21st century at the foundation of modern tectonic studies.
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In 1910, after studying the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Harry Fielding Reid put forward the " elastic rebound theory " which remains the foundation for modern tectonic studies.
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The Time Dependent model is based on the theory of elastic rebound, that after an earthquake releases tectonic stress there will be some time before sufficient stress accumulates to cause another earthquake.
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The original crater is estimated to have been in diameter and the age is estimated to be 342 ?15 million years ( Mont des �boulements, situated in the exact centre of the crater, is interpreted as the central uplift, a consequence of elastic rebound.
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The central uplift is the result of " elastic rebound ", which is a process in which a material with elastic strength attempts to return to its original geometry; rather the collapse is a process in which a material with little or no strength attempts to return to a state of gravitational equilibrium.