Abstract Large earthquakes in North China, Australia, Northwestern Europe, Central and
Eastern United States, and other mid-continents show complex spatiotemporal patterns that …

Earthquake fault systems interact over a broad spectrum of spatial and temporal scales and,
in recent years, studies of the regional seismicity in a variety of regions have produced a …

Pre-Earthquake signals are advanced warnings of a larger seismic event. A better
understanding of these processes can help to predict the characteristics of the subsequent …

A New Paradigm is needed for Reliable Seismic Hazard Assessment RSHA, not only from
consideration of (a) the huge human losses experienced in the many recently destructive …

Lessons learnt from the destructive earthquakes occurred during the new millennium
provide new opportunities to take action, revise, and improve the procedure for seismic …

Unraveling the precursory signals of potentially destructive earthquakes is crucial to
understand the Earth's crust dynamics and to provide reliable seismic warnings. Earthquake …

We model a fault cross-cutting the brittle upper crust and the ductile lower crust. In the brittle
layer the fault is assumed to have stick–slip behaviour, whereas the lower ductile crust is …

The fault activation (fault on) interrupts the enduring fault locking (fault off) and marks the
end of a seismic cycle in which the brittle-ductile transition (BDT) acts as a sort of switch. We …

Hazard reduction policies include seismic hazard maps based on probabilistic evaluations
and the evaluation of geophysical parameters continuously recorded by instrumental …

The use of different seismicity indicators as input for systems to predict earthquakes is
becoming increasingly popular. Nevertheless, the values of these indicators have not been …