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| Titel |
The Earth as a living planet: human-type diseases in the earthquake preparation process |
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Y. F. Contoyiannis, S. M. Potirakis, K. Eftaxias |
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Englisch
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1561-8633
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In: Natural Hazards and Earth System Science ; 13, no. 1 ; Nr. 13, no. 1 (2013-01-25), S.125-139 |
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250017537
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/nhess-13-125-2013.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| The new field of complex systems supports the view that a number of systems
arising from disciplines as diverse as physics, biology, engineering, and
economics may have certain quantitative features that are intriguingly
similar. The Earth is a living planet where many complex systems run
perfectly without stopping at all. The earthquake generation is a
fundamental sign that the Earth is a living planet. Recently, analyses have
shown that human-brain-type disease appears during the earthquake generation
process. Herein, we show that human-heart-type disease appears during the
earthquake preparation of the earthquake process. The investigation is
mainly attempted by means of critical phenomena, which have been proposed as
the likely paradigm to explain the origins of both heart electric
fluctuations and fracture-induced electromagnetic fluctuations. We show that
a time window of the damage evolution within the heterogeneous Earth's crust
and the healthy heart's electrical action present the characteristic
features of the critical point of a thermal second-order phase transition. A
dramatic breakdown of critical characteristics appears in the tail of the
fracture process of heterogeneous system and the injured heart's electrical
action. Analyses by means of Hurst exponent and wavelet decomposition
further support the hypothesis that a dynamical analogy exists between the
geological and biological systems under study. |
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