Warm Dense Matter Generator of Earthquakes?

Abstract

Reid's theory, which explains the origin of earthquakes as the release of elastic deformation energy by the earth's crust, does not allow the creation of a theory of deep-focus earthquakes. We can say with confidence: - if humanity had not experienced disasters caused by deeply focused earthquakes, scientists would still have argued that such events cannot occur in nature. This article shows a model of a deep-focus earthquake, which is a classic hydraulic shock, a well-studied process followed by a phase transition of the rock material and the formation of plasma. It is known that where the fluid flows (in our case, magma) through various pipes (in our case these are different cracks in the mantle, volcanic vents, kimberlite pipes), hydraulic shocks always occurred. This routine process in hydrodynamics studied far and wide, causes the birth of a special kind of plasma in the bowels of the Earth - Warm Dense Matter (WDM), which, in our opinion, is a generator of earthquakes. This article discusses the possibility of obtaining WDM due to the energy of a hydraulic shock with the subsequent explosion of the resulting concentrated plasma and the formation of seismic waves…