Complexity and Statistical Physics Approaches to Earthquakes
A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Multidisciplinary Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (17 September 2023) | Viewed by 21112
Special Issue Editor
Interests: seismology; geophysics; tectonics; earthquake physics; complexity; statistical seismology; nonlinear dynamics; statistical physics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In an ever-growing world, there is an increasing and urgent demand to estimate natural hazards more efficiently. A crucial concern to this challenging task is the mitigation of earthquake risk. Earthquake occurrence is inherently a complex phenomenon manifested in the nonlinear dynamics that form the earthquake generation process. Earthquakes interact over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales to generate new events, while the coupling of stress interactions with other aseismic processes, such as fluid flow, poroelastic effects, and aseismic slip, may further reduce the frictional strength of faults, triggering more earthquakes. As such, earthquakes are considered a critical-point phenomenon, exhibiting nonlinearity, self-organized criticality, scaling, clustering, fractal/multifractal structures, and long-range interactions. The analysis of the earthquake phenomenon in the light of complexity theory is thus ubiquitous, and mathematical tools arising from statistical physics offer a consistent theoretical framework to better understand earthquake occurrence. With the significant increase in the number of new data in recent years, these modern tools may provide novel and substantial insights into the physics of earthquakes, with an ultimate goal of mitigating earthquake risk more effectively.
This Special Issue welcomes new contributions and reviews arising from, but not limited to, the fields of complexity theory and statistical physics approaches to earthquakes, random walks, nonlinear analysis, pattern recognition, stochastic models and statistical properties of seismicity, and earthquake forecasting.
Dr. Georgios Michas
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- earthquake physics
- complexity
- statistical physics
- nonlinear dynamics
- stochastic models
- time series analysis
- random walks
- earthquake triggering
- statistical properties
- fractal/multifractal structures
- earthquake forecasting
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