A graviquake is an earthquake occurring in an extensional tectonic setting, where the gravitational energy stored during the interseismic period is delivered by the collapse of a brittle upper crustal volume, slipping along a normal fault and generating the double couple recorded in the moment tensor solution.[1]

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  1. ^ Doglioni, C.; Carminati, E.; Petricca, P.; Riguzzi, F. (14 July 2015). "Normal fault earthquakes or graviquakes | Scientific Reports". Scientific Reports. 5 (1): 12110. doi:10.1038/srep12110. PMC 4501010. PMID 26169163.