Due to their potential application in earthquake forecasting, seismo-electromagnetic
phenomena were intensively studied for several decades all over the world. At present …

Earthquakes and the faults upon which they occur interact over a wide range of spatial and
temporal scales. In addition, many aspects of regional seismicity appear to be stochastic …

This essential reference for graduate students and researchers provides a unified treatment
of earthquakes and faulting as two aspects of brittle tectonics at different timescales. The …

Concepts, methods and techniques of statistical physics in the study of correlated, as well as
uncorrelated, phenomena are being applied ever increasingly in the natural sciences …

Many aspects of earthquake mechanics remain an enigma as we enter the closing years of
the twentieth century. One potential bright spot is the realization that simple calculations of …

The concept of self-organized criticality was introduced to explain the behaviour of the
sandpile model. In this model, particles are randomly dropped onto a square grid of boxes …

An evidently precursory acoustic emission (AE) time series, characterized by a time‐
reversed Omori law, is registered prior to the unconfined catastrophic rupture of brittle …

Publisher Summary This chapter summarizes the new facts surrounding the spatial
variability of the b-value—the slope of the frequency-magnitude distribution (FMD) …

Crustal deformation patterns are affected by multiscale granulation and healing processes
associated with phase transitions between continuum and discrete states of rocks. The …

This introductory article presents the special Discussion and Debate volume “From black
swans to dragon-kings, is there life beyond power laws?” We summarize and put in …