“…One of the reasons for this deviation is inadequate data acquisition. At the lower magnitude end, this is apparent from the difficulty in determining the magnitude of completeness, Mc (Cao & Gao, 2002;Godano et al, 2014;Mignan, 2012;Radziminovich et al, 2019;Raub et al, 2017). Meanwhile, small-scale ruptures can be masked by larger ones, which is also a very significant factor for inadequate data acquisition in rock AE experiments when avalanche destruction occurs during the final loading stage or in high strain rate loading tests (Cox & Meredith, 1993;Liakopoulou et al, 1994;Liu et al, 2015Liu et al, , 2020Meredith & Main, 1990).…”