Earthquake-triggered giant tsunamis can cause catastrophic disasters to coastal
populations, ecosystems and infrastructure on scales over thousands of kilometres. In …

Accurate probabilistic seismic hazard analysis requires a good knowledge of the recurrence
parameters of the strongest earthquakes in a region. Due to the typical short temporal span …

Tsunami-induced disasters present a significant threat to coastal communities. Under the
effects of sea-level rise due to climate change, tsunami occurrence frequency and intensities …

Earthquake recurrence models are the basis of seismic hazard analysis and seismic risk
evaluation of physical infrastructure. They are based on statistical analysis of earthquake …

Historical and paleoseismic records in south-central Chile indicate that giant earthquakes on
the subduction megathrust–such as in AD1960 (M w 9.5)–reoccur on average every∼ 300 …

Field observations and modelling indicate that elastic interaction between active faults can
lead to variations in earthquake recurrence intervals measured on timescales of 102-104 yr …

The following chapter provides an overview of the techniques used to understand Self-
Organised Criticality (SOC) by performing computer simulations. Those are of particular …

Several recent earthquake events (eg, 2008 moment-magnitude (MW) 8.0 Wenchuan,
China; 2016 MW 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake, New Zealand; 2019 MW 6.4–7.1 Ridgecrest …

Extreme events that change global society have been characterized as black swans. The
frequency-size distributions of many natural phenomena are often well approximated by …

Recurrence statistics of large earthquakes has a long-term economic and societal
importance. This study investigates the temporal distribution of large (M≥ 6) earthquakes in …