20.500.12556/RUL-138417 Precursory stress changes before large earthquakes on a new physical law for earthquakes In this article, we first review the progress in our understanding of tectonic stresses in the Earth’s crust achieved in last three to four decades. We briefly review the literature on roughly four groups of studies; (1) World’s Stress Map project (WSM), (2) fault-slip data and paleostress analyses, (3) Coulomb stress transfer, and (4) theories of the generalized continua with emphasis on the Cosserat continuum. Based on these studies, we develop a new numerical algorithm to calculate tectonic strain rate, tectonic stress, and normalized tectonic shear stress fields from the earthquake focal mechanisms. We show that this field changes over time, and is therefore far from being constant. Further on, we focus our efforts on the analysis of the relationship between the magnitudes of the earthquakes and the normalized tectonic shear stress. We discover a new and previously unknown physical law, which we call the maximum magnitude law (MM-law). We discuss further the origin and physical background of this law and its importance in earthquake studies. earthquakes tectonic stress tectonic strain shear stress maximum magnitude law earthquake precursors true false true Angleški jezik Ni določen Članek v reviji 2022-07-20 10:27:12 2022-07-20 10:27:13 2022-09-15 04:16:44 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2020 0 0 12 str. Vol. 141, art. 104208 2020 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 55 0191-8141 10.1016/j.jsg.2020.104208 32212227 1-s2.0-S0191814120304284-main.pdf 1-s2.0-S0191814120304284-main.pdf 1 D1BEB790775C283AFD5F315BD2661BF3 18ee8800829330b88b236f628cd3bc1bd7cf38a233e2dd7e09688a48a8e07473 cf5d995e-0805-11ed-8aca-00155dcfd717 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=158736 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191814120304284 0 9ac1ad40-0805-11ed-8aca-00155dcfd717 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=158735 Naravoslovnotehniška fakulteta Fakulteta za gradbeništvo in geodezijo 0 0 0