Modeling crustal deformation is a very important process that helps to study plate interaction that clearly can be used to predict the likelihood of an earthquake.
Earthquake is a sudden displacement or movement with the earth that transmits elastic energy.
Earthquakes can have shallow or deep focus depending on their location and the terrain.
Movement on the earth are mostly noticeable along plate margins.
This results in a world-wide movement of the broken slabs of the earth moving on the weak asthenosphere.
It is impossible to go deep within the lithosphere to identify unstable earth.
The uneven distribution of stress is very important in this process.
As plate moves, the lithosphere deforms creating stresses in some area and relieving other places of stress.
Continuous collection of stress data using strain mapping gives important parameters that can be modeled.
Areas with high amount of stress and more movement have the highest tendency of producing earthquakes.
A computer model is used to carry out this prediction.
Some other factors contributes to the rapid movement but stress are by far the most important of all.
By this, we can easily and readily hypothesize the causes of an earthquake and possible measures to mitigate it.
