Laboratory experiments have shown that, during a fracture, the breaking of a bond launches a propagating stress wave which may trigger the breaking of other bonds. We examine here the possibility that the same holds on a geophysical scale. Based on a nonextensive approach, we examine whether the...

In this work, we investigate the dynamics of electromagnetic precursors, recorded prior to significant earthquakes in Greece. The analysis of these signals is performed using Fisher information, which is a powerful tool for investigating complex and non-stationary signals. Our results point to a...

The variation of fractal dimension and entropy during a damage evolution process, especially approaching critical failure, has been recently investigated. A sudden drop of fractal dimension has been proposed as a quantitative indicator of damage localization or a likely precursor of an impending...

Earthquakes (EQs) are large-scale fracture phenomena in the Earth’s heterogeneous crust. Fracture-induced physical fields allow a real-time monitoring of damage evolution in materials during mechanical loading. Electromagnetic (EM) emissions in a wide frequency spectrum ranging from kHz to MHz...

Fracture induced physical fields allow a real-time monitoring of damage evolution in materials during mechanical loading. We investigate the preparation of the recently occurred L’Aquila earthquake in terms of a detected precursory electromagnetic anomaly. The precursor is well described by a...

We investigate, within the framework of nonextensive Tsallis entropy, particular aspects of the relation between signal analysis and signals originating in a very special nonlinear system: the focal area of an impending earthquake. The Tsallis-like time-dependent entropy is shown to be a rather...