Synchronization and Triggering: from Fracture to Earthquake Processes

1. Nonlinear Dynamics as a Tool for Revealing Synchronization and Ordering in Geophysical Time Series: Application to Caucasus Seismicity
Teimuraz Matcharashvili, Tamaz Chelidze

2. Models of Stick-Slip Motion: Impact of Periodic Forcing
T. Chelidze, N. Varamashvili

3. Shear Oscillations, Rotations and Interactions in Asymmetric Continuum
Roman Teisseyre

4. Processes in Micro-Fracture Continuum
Roman Teisseyre, Zbigniew Czechowski

5. On a Simple Stochastic Cellular Automaton with Avalanches: Simulation and Analytical Results
Mariusz Białecki, Zbigniew Czechowski

6. Ito Equations as Macroscopic Stochastic Models of Geophysical Phenomena – Construction of the Models on the Basis of Time Series
Z. Czechowski, M. Białecki

7. The Importance of Privilege for the Appearance of Long-Tail Distributions
Zbigniew Czechowski

8. Triggering and Synchronization of Stick-Slip: Experiments on Spring-Slider System
T. Chelidze, T. Matcharashvili, O. Lursmanashvili, N. Varamashvili, N. Zhukova, E. Meparidze

9. Oscillating Load-Induced Acoustic Emission in Laboratory Experiment
A. Ponomarev, D. Lockner, S. Stroganova, S. Stanchits, V. Smirnov

10. Acoustic Emission Dynamics Initiated by Fluid Infusion on Laboratory Scale
A. Ponomarev, G. Sobolev, Yu. Maibuk

11. Acoustic Emission Spectra Classification from Rock Samples of Etna Basalt in Deformation-Decompression Laboratory Experiments
V. Rubeis, S. Vinciguerra, P. Tosi, P. Sbarra, P. M. Benson

12. Phase-Shifted Fields: Some Experimental Evidence
Roman Teisseyre, Tamaz Chelidze, Krzysztof. P. Teisseyre

13. Periodical Oscillations of Microseisms before the Sumatra Earthquake of December 26, 2004
G. Sobolev, A. Lyubushin

14. Synchronizations of Microseismic Oscillations as the Indicators of the Instability of a Seismically Active Region
G. A. Sobolev, A. A. Lyubushin, N. A. Zakrzhevskaya

15. Multifractal Parameters of Low-Frequency Microseisms
A. Lyubushin

16. Changes in Dynamics of Seismic Processes Around Enguri High Dam Reservoir Induced by Periodic Variation of Water Level
T. Matcharashvili, T. Chelidze, V. Abashidze, N. Zhukova, E. Meparidze

17. Earthquakes’ Signatures in Dynamics of Water Level Variations in Boreholes
T. Chelidze, T. Matcharashvili, G. Melikadze

18. Detecting Quasi-Harmonic Factors Synchronizing Relaxation Processes: Application to Seismology
Otar Lursmanashvili, Tamar Paatashvili, Lev Gheonjian

19. Stacked Analysis of Earthquake Sequences: Statistical Space–Time Definition of Clustering and Omori Law Behavior
P. Tosi, V. Rubeis, P. Sbarra

20. Dynamical Changes Induced by Strong Electromagnetic Discharges in Earthquakes’ Waiting Time Distribution at the Bishkek Test Area (Central Asia)
T. Chelidze, V. Rubeis, T. Matcharashvili, P. Tosi

Keywords: Earth Sciences, Geophysics/Geodesy, Classical Continuum Physics, Geotechnical Engineering