Synchronization and Triggering: from Fracture to Earthquake Processes

Theoretical studies.- Nonlinear Dynamics as a Tool for Revealing Synchronization and Ordering in Geophysical Time Series: Application to Caucasus Seismicity.- Models of Stick-Slip Motion: Impact of Periodic Forcing.- Shear Oscillations, Rotations and Interactions in Asymmetric Continuum.- Processes in Micro-Fracture Continuum.- On a Simple Stochastic Cellular Automaton with Avalanches: Simulation and Analytical Results.- Ito Equations as Macroscopic Stochastic Models of Geophysical Phenomena - Construction of the Models on the Basis of Time Series.- The Importance of Privilege for the Appearance of Long-Tail Distributions.- Laboratory experiments.- Triggering and Synchronization of Stick-Slip: Experiments on Spring-Slider System.- Oscillating Load-Induced Acoustic Emission in Laboratory Experiment.- Acoustic Emission Dynamics Initiated by Fluid Infusion on Laboratory Scale.- Acoustic Emission Spectra Classification from Rock Samples of Etna Basalt in Deformation-Decompression Laboratory Experiments.- Phase-Shifted Fields: Some Experimental Evidence.- Field observations.- Periodical Oscillations of Microseisms before the Sumatra Earthquake of December 26, 2004.- Synchronizations of Microseismic Oscillations as the Indicators of the Instability of a Seismically Active Region.- Multifractal Parameters of Low-Frequency Microseisms.- Changes in Dynamics of Seismic Processes Around Enguri High Dam Reservoir Induced by Periodic Variation of Water Level.- Earthquakes' Signatures in Dynamics of Water Level Variations in Boreholes.- Detecting Quasi-Harmonic Factors Synchronizing Relaxation Processes: Application to Seismology.- Stacked Analysis of Earthquake Sequences: Statistical Space-Time Definition of Clustering and Omori Law Behavior.- Dynamical Changes Induced byStrong Electromagnetic Discharges in Earthquakes' Waiting Time Distribution at the Bishkek Test Area (Central Asia).