▪ Abstract Earthquake triggering is the process by which stress changes associated with an
earthquake can induce or retard seismic activity in the surrounding region or trigger other …

Oscillations in stress, such as those created by earthquakes, can increase permeability and
fluid mobility in geologic media. In natural systems, strain amplitudes as small as 10− 6 can …

Earthquakes follow a well-known power-law size relation, with smaller events occurring
much more often than larger events. Earthquake catalogs are thus dominated by small …

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 …

An immediate report of the source focal mechanism with full automation after a destructive
earthquake is crucial for timely characterizing the faulting geometry, evaluating the stress …

We introduce a new method to determine the magnitude of completeness M c and its
uncertainty. Our method models the entire magnitude range (emr method) consisting of the …

Earthquakes occur as a result of global plate motion. However, this simple picture is far from
complete. Some plate boundaries glide past each other smoothly, while others are …

We introduce the optical ruler, an electromagnetic analog of a physical ruler, for nanoscale
displacement metrology. The optical ruler is a complex electromagnetic field in which …

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

▪ Abstract Recent developments in volcanic seismology include new techniques to improve
earthquake locations that have changed clouds of earthquakes to lines (faults) for high …