Dynamic Stress Drop
Dynamic Stress Drop : A term in earthquake source physics; the space-time history of stress drop while the fault is slipping, affected by the detailed processes of friction sliding and seismic wave radiation. It is more difficult to estimate from observations than static stress drop. See Madariaga and Olsen (2002), Ruff (2002, p. 550- 551), and Figure 14 in Ben-Zion (2003)