Current Challenges in Statistical Seismology

Introduction.- Cumulative Coulombstress triggering as an explanation for the Canterbury (New Zealand) aftershocksequence: Initial conditions are everything?.- A variety ofaftershock decay in the rate- and state-friction model due to the effect ofsecondary aftershocks: Implications from real aftershock sequences.-Tempo-spatial impactof the 2011 M9 Tohoku-Oki earthquake on Eastern China.- Evaluation of CoulombStress Changes from Earthquake Productivity Variations in Western Corinth Gulf,Greece.- Signature of faulthealing in an aftershock sequence? The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake.- The spatial andtemporal variation of the b-value in Southwest China.- A revised earthquakecatalogue for South Iceland.- The spatial scale ofdetected seismicity.- Visibility graphanalysis of 2003-2012 earthquake sequence in Kachchh region, Western India.-Analysis of foreshocksequences in California and implications for earthquake triggering.- Quantitativeanalysisof seismicity before Large Taiwanese Earthquakes Using G-R Law.- Statisticalsignificance of the minimum of the order parameter fluctuations of seismicitybefore major earthquakes in Japan.- An ExplosionAftershock Model with Application to On-Site Inspection.- Conditionalprobabilities for Large Events Estimated by Small Earthquake Rate.- A Bayesian Assessmentof Seismic Semi-periodicity Forecasts.- The Determination ofEarthquake Hazard Parameters Deduced from Bayesian Approach for DifferentSeismic Source Regions of Western Anatolia.- Development of a combinationapproach for seismic hazard evaluation.- A Strategy for aroutine Pattern Informatics Operation Applied to Taiwan.- The central China North-SouthSeismic Belt: Seismicity, Ergodicity, and Five-year PI Forecast in Testing.- Characteristics of seismoelectricwave fields associated with natural microcracks.- Shifting correlation betweenearthquakes and electromagneticsignals: a case study of the 2013Minxian-Zhangxian ML6.5 (MW6.1) earthquake in Gansu, China.- Long term RST analysisof anomalous TIR sequences in relation with earthquakes occurred in Greece inthe period 2004-2013.- Statisticalevaluation of efficiency and possibility of earthquake predictions with gravityfield variation and its analytic signal in western China.