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

We review the general aspects of the concept of temperature in equilibrium and non-
equilibrium statistical mechanics. Although temperature is an old and well-established …

Meta-heuristic algorithms are problem-solving methods which try to find good-enough
solutions to very hard optimization problems, at a reasonable computation time, where …

To clarify the shear-slip process and characteristics of fault, we conducted triaxial shear tests
driven by displacement on shale samples with prefabricated sawcut and natural fractures …

Much of Oklahoma and southern Kansas has seen widespread seismic activity in the last
decade that is attributed to large‐scale wastewater disposal into the Arbuckle group. Using a …

The production mechanism of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) is still a mystery, and
correlations between burst occurrence times and energies may provide important clues to …

The number of aftershocks increases with mainshock size following a well‐defined scaling
law. However, excursions from the average behavior are common. This variability is …

The epidemic‐type aftershock sequence (ETAS) model is the most effective mathematical
description of the short‐term space–time earthquake clustering. However, the use of such a …

The big-jump principle is a well-established mathematical result for sums of independent
and identically distributed random variables extracted from a fat-tailed distribution. It states …

Rock failure under shear loading conditions controls earthquake and faulting phenomena.
We study the dynamics of microscale damage precursory to shear faulting in a quartz …