**Meet the editor**

Dr Sebastiano D'Amico (Ph.D.) has been working as Research Officer III at the University of Malta, within the Physics Department, since 2010. He was enrolled in the Physics program of the University of Messina where he was awarded the title of "Dottore in Fisica". In 2005 he moved to Rome where he joined the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV). In 2007 he mar-

ried Rosarianna and together with his wife he moved to U.S.A. to join the Saint Louis University (Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department). His research interests are in the applied aspects of earthquake seismology. He is the author of several publications in this field. In particular, he is interested in seismicity and tectonics of the Central Mediterranean, earthquake ground motion and seismic hazard, earthquake moment tensor solutions, and ambient noise measurements on soil and buildings

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Ayten Yiğiter

Chapter 4 **Earthquakes Precursors 79** 

R. G. M. Crockett

Ming-Ching T. Kuo

**Part 1 Statistical Seismology 1** 

Chapter 1 **The Weibull – Log-Weibull Transition** 

Tomohiro Hasumi, Chien-chih Chen, Takuma Akimoto and Yoji Aizawa

Chapter 2 **Change Point Analysis in Earthquake Data 25** 

I.N. Tikhonov and M.V. Rodkin

Elvis Pontes, Anderson A. A. Silva, Adilson E. Guelfi and Sérgio T. Kofuji

**Anomalies in Paired Time-Series 125** 

Giuseppina Immè and Daniela Morelli

Chapter 8 **Application of Recurrent Radon Precursors for** 

Chapter 6 **Identification of Simultaneous Similar** 

Chapter 7 **Radon as Earthquake Precursor 143** 

**of Interoccurrence Time of Earthquakes 3** 

**Part 2 Studies on Earthquake Precursors and Forecasting 41** 

**Precursors and Experience in Earthquake Forecasting at Sakhalin Island and Surrounding Areas 43** 

**for Cyber Attacks in Internet and Computer Systems 101** 

**Forecasting Local Large and Moderate Earthquakes 161** 

Chapter 3 **Current State of Art in Earthquake Prediction, Typical** 

Dumitru Stanica and Dragos Armand Stanica

Chapter 5 **Earthquake Prediction: Analogy with Forecasting Models** 
