Giant friction experiment at Kīlauea volcano | Stanford News - Stanford University News 29-Jul-2021

Giant friction experiment at Kīlauea volcano | Stanford News - Stanford University News

A new analysis of the 2018 collapse of Kīlauea volcano’s caldera helps to confirm the reigning scientific paradigm for how friction works on earthquake faults. The model quantifies the conditions necessary to initiate the kind of caldera collapse that sustain…

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