Computational Earthquake Science Part I

A. Microscopic Simulation.- Statistical Tests of Load-Unload Response Ratio Signals by Lattice Solid Model: Implication to Tidal Triggering and Earthquake Prediction.- Long-range Stress Redistribution Resulting from Damage in Heterogeneous Media.- Review of the Physical Basis of Laboratory-derived Relations for Brittle Failure and their Implications for Earthquake Occurrence and Earthquake Nucleation.- Particle Dynamics Simulations of Rate- and State-dependent Frictional Sliding of Granular Fault Gouge.- The Dependence of Constitutive Properties on Temperature and Effective Normal Stress in Seismogenic Environments.- A Constitutive Scaling Law for Shear Rupture that is Inherently Scale-dependent, and Physical Scaling of Nucleation Time to Critical Point.- Critical Sensitivity in Driven Nonlinear Threshold Systems.- Intermittent Criticality and the Gutenberg-Richter Distribution.- Ergodicity in Natural Fault Systems.- Focal Mechanism Dependence of a Few Seismic Phenomena and its Implications for the Physics of Earthquakes.- Continuum Fractal Mechanics of the Earth's Crust.- Using Eigenpattern Analysis to Constrain Seasonal Signals in Southern California.- Accelerating Precursory Activity within a Class of Earthquake Analogue Automata.- Dynamical System Analysis and Forecasting of Deformation Produced by an Earthquake Fault.- 3-D Modelling of Plate Interfaces and Numerical Simulation of Long-term Crustal Deformation in and around Japan.- GeoFEM Kinematic Earthquake Cycle Simulation in Southwest Japan.- Finite Element Analysis of Fault Bend Influence on Stick-Slip Instability along an Intra-Plate Fault.- Quasi-static and Quasi-dynamic Modeling of Earthquake Failure at Intermediate Scales.