This book presents disciplines, methods and techniques for defining fractures in earth crust, the bonded discrete element method using a new fracture criterion, rock fracture mechanics for analyzing the earthquake nucleation and stress redistribution, the multiple linear regression analyses on the relationships between earthquake moment magnitude and fault measurements for hazard assessment, the pattern informatics model based on the statistical mechanics of complex systems for evaluation of earthquake probability, and a fully probabilistic earthquake hazard assessment for local seismic risk studies and building code applications.
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