Instructional Video
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology

Iris: Subduction Zone: Simplified Model of Elastic Rebound

9th - 10th
Understand how energy disperses during an earthquake. This brief video will illustrate the theory of elastic rebound. [:25]
Instructional Video
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology

Iris: Subduction Zone: Simplified Model of Elastic Rebound

9th - 10th
Oblique view of a highly generalized animation of a subduction zone where an oceanic plate is subducting beneath a continental plate. [0:27]