Supershear earthquake
Earthquake in which the rupture propagation speeds are greater than the shear wave speed / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In seismology, a supershear earthquake is an earthquake in which the propagation of the rupture along the fault surface occurs at speeds in excess of the seismic shear wave (S-wave) velocity. This causes an effect analogous to a sonic boom.[1]