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Introduction: Seismicity Patterns, their Statistical Significance and Physical Meaning.- Rethinking Earthquake Prediction.- Is Earthquake Seismology a Hard, Quantitative Science?.- How Can One Test the Seismic Gap Hypothesis? The Case of Repeated Ruptures in the Aleutians.- Evolving Towards a Critical Point: A Review of Accelerating Seismic Moment/Energy Release Prior to Large and Great Earthquakes.- Seismic Cycles and the Evolution of Stress Correlation in Cellular Automaton Models of Finite Fault Networks.- Detailed Distribution of Accelerating Foreshocks before a M 5.1 Earthquake in Japan.- Foreshock Occurrence Rates before Large Earthquakes Worldwide.- Time Distribution of Immediate Foreshocks Obtained by a Stacking Method.- Pattern Characteristics of Foreshock Sequences.- Precursory Activation of Seismicity in Advance of the Kobe, 1995, M = 7.2 Earthquake.- The Variation of Stresses due to Aseismic Sliding and its Effect on Seismic Activity.- Precursory Seismic Quiescence before the 1994 Kurile Earthquake (Mw, = 8.3) Revealed by Three Independent Seismic Catalogs.- Seismicity Analysis through Point-process Modeling: A Review.- Representation and Analysis of the Earthquake Size Distribution: A Historical Review and Some New Approaches.- Universality of the Seismic Moment-frequency Relation.- Physical Basis for Statistical Patterns in Complex Earthquake Populations:Models, Predictions and Tests.- Use of Statistical Models to Analyze Periodic Seismicity Observed for Clusters in the Kanto Region, Central Japan.- Pore Creation due to Fault Slip in a Fluid-permeated Fault Zone and its Effect on Seismicity: Generation Mechanism of Earthquake Swarm.- Coupled Stress Release Model for Time-dependent Seismicity.- Recognition of a Locked State in Plate Subduction from Microearthquake Seismicity.- Seasonality of Great Earthquake Occurrence at the Northwestern Margin of the Philippine Sea Plate.- Eruptions of Pavlof Volcano, Alaska, and their Possible Modulation by Ocean Load and Tectonic Stresses: Re-Evaluation of the Hypothesis Based on New Data from 1984-1998.- Seismicity Patterns: Are they Always Related to Natural Causes?.
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