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 …

Non-extensive statistical mechanics (or q-statistics) is based on the so-called non-additive
Tsallis entropy. Since its introduction by Tsallis, in 1988, as a generalization of the …

A characteristic change of seismicity has been recently uncovered when the precursory
Seismic Electric Signals activities initiate before an earthquake occurrence. In particular, the …

Kappa distributions describe particle velocities and energies in collisionless particle systems
such as space and astrophysical plasmas. While we understand the possible mechanisms …

It has been recently reported that the current 2015–2016 El Niño could become “one of the
strongest on record”. To further explore this claim, we performed the new analysis described …

In this paper, we applied the Multifractal Detrended Fluctuations Analysis (MF-DFA) to
investigate the components of the observed multifractality in time series of 6 Brazilian …

A lot of work in geosciences has been completed during the last decade on the analysis in
the new concept of time, termed natural time, introduced in 2001. The main advances are …

Using the INGV (National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology) seismic catalogue,
nonextensive analysis of the instrumental seismicity of Italy was performed. The time span of …

Seismic data have improved in quality and quantity over the past few decades, enabling
better statistical analysis. Statistical physics has proposed new ways to deal with these data …

The observed earthquake scaling laws indicate the existence of phenomena closely
associated with the proximity of the system to a critical point. Taking this view that …