Global warming, extreme climate events, earthquakes and their accompanying
socioeconomic disasters pose significant risks to humanity. Yet due to the nonlinear …

There is striking evidence that the dynamics of the Earth crust is controlled by a wide variety
of mutually dependent mechanisms acting at different spatial and temporal scales. The …

Interacting human activities underlie the patterns of many social, technological, and
economic phenomena. Here we present clear empirical evidence from Short Message …

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 …

Despite the extreme complexity that characterizes the mechanism of the earthquake
generation process, simple empirical scaling relations apply to the collective properties of …

We introduce a shear experiment that quantitatively reproduces the main laws of seismicity.
By continuously and slowly shearing a compressed monolayer of disks in a ringlike …

In the present work the statistical properties of the earthquake activity in a highly seismic
region, the West Corinth rift (Central Greece), are being studied by means of generalized …

Society's drive toward ever faster socio-technical systems, means that there is an urgent
need to understand the threat from'black swan'extreme events that might emerge. On 6 May …

Around 90% of the world's earthquakes occur at the Pacific Ring of Fire exposing the
countries in this region to high risk of earthquake hazards. We model fluctuations of the …

We report on an extensive characterization of the cracking noise produced by charcoal
samples when dampened with ethanol. We argue that the evaporation of ethanol causes …