Earthquakes and rupture in material sciences

DownloadParallels between earthquakes, financial crashes and epileptic seizures (PDF, 4.9 MB)
Keynote Presentation at the Risk Management Solutions Earthquake Symposium 2008 on "Advances in Earthquake Forecasting", Millenium Broadway Hotel, New York, USA, January 23, 2008

DownloadExtremes in seismology (PDF, 2.8 MB)
CCES group "Extremes", Weissfluhjoch, Davos, Switzerland, January 9, 2008
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Statistical computer models of material rupture and earthquakes

Download1) Asymmetric elasticity and long range interactions between earthquakes (PDF, 3.3 MB)
Download2) Multifractal stress activation model and magnitude-dependent Omori law for triggered earthquakes (PDF, 3.3 MB)
Rechnergestuetzte Wissenschaften (RW) (Computational Science and Engineering), ETH Zurich, organized by Professor Kaspar Nipp, in the series of Seminar for Applied Mathematics, November 15, 2007

Download"Universal" distribution of inter-event times explained (PDF, 4.3 MB)
Invited talk at the 5th International Workshop on Statistical Seismology: Physical and Stochastic Modelling of Earthquake Occurrence and Forecasting (STATSEI5), (EMFCSC, Erice, Sicily, I), directed by M. Cocco, R. Console and S. Wiemer, 31 May - 6 June, 2007

DownloadRenormalization of thermal fluctuations by heterogeneous damage for macroscopic rupture processes (PDF, 5.1 MB)
Invited seminar lecture in the Polymer Physics Group, ETH Zuerich, Hoenggerberg, invited by Dr. U. Handge and Prof. Dr. Ch. Oettinger, November 8, 2006