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Cross-diffusion waves resulting from multiscale, multiphysics instabilities: application to earthquakes
School of Minerals and Energy Resources Engineering, UNSW, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Manman Hu
Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Christoph Schrank
Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia
Xiao Chen
School of Minerals and Energy Resources Engineering, UNSW, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Santiago Peña Clavijo
School of Minerals and Energy Resources Engineering, UNSW, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Ulrich Kelka
CSIRO, Deep Earth Imaging FSP, Kensington, Australia
Ali Karrech
School of Engineering, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
Oliver Gaede
Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia
Tomasz Blach
School of Minerals and Energy Resources Engineering, UNSW, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Hamid Roshan
School of Minerals and Energy Resources Engineering, UNSW, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Antoine B. Jacquey
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Piotr Szymczak
Institute of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Qingpei Sun
Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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This paper presents a trans-disciplinary approach bridging the gap between observations of instabilities from the molecular scale to the very large scale. We show that all scales communicate via propagation of volumetric deformation waves. Similar phenomena are encountered in quantum optics where wave collisions can release sporadic bursts of light. Ocean waves show a similar phenomenon of rogue waves that seem to come from nowhere. This mechanism is proposed to be the trigger for earthquakes.
This paper presents a trans-disciplinary approach bridging the gap between observations of...
