A BOOK INSPIRED TO MY Ph.D. THESIS Explore the collective physics governing major earthquakes bridging fault mechanics and statistical seismology. This book presents a framework …
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Short-Sighted Faults: A New Model for Earthquake Recurrence and Crustal Memory
The mechanical behaviour of large faults presents a fundamental paradox: geophysical evidence suggests they are weak but produce significant coseismic stress drops without the predicted …
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Scale-dependent earthquake nucleation: Implications for seismicity,tectonics and laboratory experiments
A long-standing challenge in seismology has been reconciling two views of earthquake nucleation: one is based on rock strength, the other on fracture energy. This …
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A statistical approach to foreshocks discrimination in Italy
Large earthquakes often occur unexpectedly, mostly in previously recognized high seismic hazard regions. Some of them are forewarned by small and moderate magnitude events classified …
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On the plate velocity scaling break
This research presents the discovery of a kink in the frequency-size distribution of plate angular velocities in different reference frames, a feature not predicted by …
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Supershear cascading rupture envelopes: a case study from the 2023 Kahramanmaraş seismic doublet
Super-shear ruptures, characterized by velocities exceeding the shear wave speed, were first predicted theoretically and later observed in laboratory experiments. While a few tectonic earthquakes …
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Precursory patterns, evolution and physical interpretation of the 2025 Santorini-Amorgos seismic sequence
The 2025 Santorini-Amorgos seismic sequence marked a significant episode of seismic unrest in the Hellenic Volcanic Arc, offering a unique opportunity to investigate precursory patterns …
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INTEGRATING PHYSICAL, STATISTICAL AND AI-ENHANCED METHODS IN SEISMIC HAZARD – Towards real-time forecasting of natural and induced earthquakes. Join us in our Session S013 at AGU 2025 in New Orleans!
By Davide Zaccagnino, Ilaria Spassiani, Giuseppe Petrillo, Robert Shcherbakov & Jiancang Zhuang SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT! Click here: https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/prelim.cgi/Session/247994 Statistical seismology has taken impressive advances during …
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Decoding Earthquake Complexity: From Earthquake Ruptures and Slip Styles to Seismic Sequences and Faulting
By Davide Zaccagnino, Robert Shcherbakov & Filippos Vallianatos SUBMIT YOUR RESEARCH PAPER TO OUR SPECIAL ISSUE! Click here: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy/special_issues/21670L7M8S Modern geophysical networks are now able …
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Spatial scale dependence of fault physical parameters and its implications for the analysis of earthquake dynamics from the lab to fault systems
An accurate assessment of seismic hazard requires a combination of earthquake physics and statistical analysis. Because of the limitations in the investigation of the seismogenic …
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