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Comment on the paper “Normal and shear stress acting on arbitrarily oriented faults, earthquake energy, crustal GPE change, and the coefficient of friction” by P. P. Zhu

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Acknowledgments

Very helpful discussions with Professors Shamita Das and Raul Madagiaga were greatly appreciated. The research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.41090291).

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Chen, YT. Comment on the paper “Normal and shear stress acting on arbitrarily oriented faults, earthquake energy, crustal GPE change, and the coefficient of friction” by P. P. Zhu. J Seismol 18, 795–797 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10950-014-9443-2

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