Abstract
On 26 November, 1849 G. G. Stokes, then Fellow of Pembroke College and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, read his paper on the dynamical theory of diffraction. As a model for a light source in the luminiferous ether, he chose a tangential force in an infinite elastic solid. Drawing on earlier results of Poisson (see Bibliography, Chapter 1) he obtained an exact solution for the displacement field caused by a single force in an infinite elastic medium. Without knowing it, he had conceived the first mathematical model of an earthquake.
If, for the study of earth physics, it becomes necessary to resort to complex theoretical devices, then the earth is to blame, not the theoretician.
(Harold Jeffreys)
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Ben-Menahem, A., Singh, S.J. (1981). Representation of Seismic Sources. In: Seismic Waves and Sources. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5856-8_4
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