The Earth as a living planet

dc.contributor.author	Κοντογιάννης, Γιάννης	el
dc.contributor.author	Ευταξίας, Κωνσταντίνος	el
dc.contributor.author	Ποτηράκης, Στέλιος	el
dc.date.accessioned	2015-06-07T18:15:57Z
dc.date.available	2015-06-07T18:15:57Z
dc.date.issued	2015-06-07
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11400/15519
dc.rights	Αναφορά Δημιουργού-Μη Εμπορική Χρήση-Όχι Παράγωγα Έργα 3.0 Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/	*
dc.source	http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net	en
dc.subject	Earthquakes
dc.subject	Electromagnetic field
dc.subject	Σεισμοί
dc.subject	Ηλεκτρομαγνητικά πεδία
dc.title	The Earth as a living planet	en
heal.type	journalArticle
heal.secondaryTitle	human-type diseases in the earthquake preparation process	en
heal.classification	Geophysics
heal.classification	Biology
heal.classification	Γεωφυσική
heal.classification	Βιολογία
heal.classificationURI	http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054185
heal.classificationURI	http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85014203
heal.classificationURI	N/A-Γεωφυσική
heal.classificationURI	N/A-Βιολογία
heal.identifier.secondary	DOI: 10.5194/nhess-13-125-2013
heal.language	en
heal.access	campus
heal.publicationDate	2013
heal.bibliographicCitation	Contoyiannis, Y., Potirakis, S. and Eftaxias, K. (2013) The Earth as a living planet: Human-type diseases in the earthquake preparation process. "Natural Hazards and Earth System Science", 13 (1), p.125-139	en
heal.abstract	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.	en
heal.journalName	Natural Hazards and Earth System Science	en
heal.journalType	peer-reviewed
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