Abstract:Earthquakes are natural disasters that can have some of the most destructive impacts on society and the environment. Also, due to the shaking of the surface of the Earth that results from sudden release of energy in the Earth lithosphere, earthquakes can trigger other natural disasters, such as volcanic eruptions, landslides, avalanches, tsunamis, and floods. The earthquake‐generation process is a complex phenomenon that manifests as nonlinear dynamics in a wide array of spatial, temporal, and size scales, whi… Show more
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