Rock Physics and Natural Hazards

What Does Control Earthquake Ruptures and Dynamic Faulting? A Review of Different Competing Mechanisms.- Quake Catalogs from an Optical Monitoring of an Interfacial Crack Propagation.- Fracture Toughness and Fracture Roughness Interrelationship in Thermally treated Westerly Granite.- Acoustic Emissions Monitoring during Inelastic Deformation of Porous Sandstone: Comparison of Three Modes of Deformation.- Initiation and Propagation of Compaction Bands in Dry and Wet Bentheim Sandstone.- Compaction and Failure in High Porosity Carbonates: Mechanical Data and Microstructural Observations.- Stress Transfer During Pressure Solution Compression of Rigidly Coupled Axisymmetric Asperities Pressed Against a Flat Semi-Infinite Solid.- Common Evolution of Mechanical and Transport Properties in Thermally Cracked Westerly Granite at Elevated Hydrostatic Pressure.- Improved Interpretation of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance T1 and T2 Distributions for Permeability Prediction: Simulation of Diffusion Coupling for a Fractal Cluster of Pores.- Oscillating Flow of a Compressible Fluid through Deformable Pipes and Pipe Networks: Wave Propagation Phenomena.- Microstructural Investigation of Naturally Deformed Leucogneiss from an Alpine Shear Zone (Southern Calabria-Italy).- Laboratory Characterization of Permeability and Its Anisotropy of Chelungpu Fault Rocks.- Axial and Radial Permeability Evolutions of Compressed Sandstones: End Effects and Shear-band Induced Permeability Anisotropy.- Microstructural Inhomogeneity and Mechanical Anisotropy Associated with Bedding in Rothbach Sandstone.- Pressure-dependent Production Efficiency of an Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS): Stimulation Results and Implications for Hydraulic Fracture Treatments.- Impact of Poroelastic Response of Sandstones on Geothermal Power Production.- Permeability Prediction for Low Porosity Rocks by Mobile NMR.