Earthquakes and Multi-hazards Around the Pacific Rim, Vol. I

Earthquakes and Multi-hazards around the Pacific Rim, Vol. 1: Introduction.- Scaling law of average failure rate and steady-state rate in rocks.- Apparent Dependence of Rate- and State-Dependent Friction Parameters on Loading Velocity and Cumulative Displacement Inferred from Large-Scale Biaxial Friction Experiments.- Source Functions and Path Effects from Earthquakes in the Farallon Transform Fault Region, Gulf of California, Mexico that Occurred on October 2013.- Stress Distribution Near the Seismic Gap Between Wenchuan and Lushan Earthquakes.- Parametrizing Physics-Based Earthquake Simulations.- Spatial Evaluation and Verification of Earthquake Simulators.- Radar Determination of Fault Slip and Location in Partially Decorrelated Images.- Detecting Significant Stress Drop Variations in Large Micro-Earthquake Datasets: A Comparison Between a Convergent Step-Over in the San Andreas Fault and the Ventura Thrust Fault System, Southern California.- Real-Time Earthquake Intensity Estimation Using Streaming Data Analysis of Social and Physical Sensors.- The Dependency of Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Assessment on Magnitude Limits of Seismic Sources in the South China Sea and Adjoining Basins.- Can Apparent Stress be Used to Time-Dependent Seismic Hazard Assessment or Earthquake Forecast? An Ongoing Approach in China.- An Ensemble Approach for Improved Short-to-Intermediate-Term Seismic Potential Evaluation.- Reducing False Alarms of Annual Forecast in the Central China North-South Seismic Belt by Reverse Tracing of Precursors (RTP) Using the Pattern Informatics (PI) 'Hotspots'.- Test of the Predictability of the PI Method for Recent Large Earthquakes in and near Tibetan Plateau.- Long-Term Seismic Quiescences and Great Earthquakes in and Around the Japan Subduction Zone Between 1975 and 2012.- Statistical Studies of Induced and Triggered Seismicity at The Geysers, California