WG leaders

• Miti Ohnaka (ERI, University of Tokyo, Japan)

• Bill Klein (Boston University, USA)

• Meng-Fen Xia (Peking University, China)

Aims

• Develop theory and understanding of emergent behaviours resulting from the underlying physics and nonlinear dynamics of fault zones and crustal fault systems

Functions

Study of scaling domains, emergent behaviors, role of fluctuations & fundamental physics, field theories, multi-scale, and multi-resolution physics.