Statistical Seismology.- The Role of Heterogeneities as a Tuning Parameter of Earthquake Dynamics.- Aftershock Statistics.- Stochastic Branching Models of Fault Surfaces and Estimated Fractal Dimensions.- Power-law Distributions of Offspring and Generation Numbers in Branching Models of Earthquake Triggering.- Interevent Time Distribution in Seismicity: A Theoretical Approach.- Methods for Measuring Seismicity Rate Changes: A Review and a Study of How the M w 7.3 Landers Earthquake Affected the Aftershock Sequence of the M w 6.1 Joshua Tree Earthquake.- Approximating the Distribution of Pareto Sums.- The Entropy Score and its Uses in Earthquake Forecasting.- A Simplified Approach to Earthquake Risk in Mainland China.- Test of the EEPAS Forecasting Model on the Japan Earthquake Catalogue.- Tidal Stress/Strain and the b-values of Acoustic Emissions at the Underground Research Laboratory, Canada.- Use of Potential Foreshocks to Estimate the Short-term Probability of Large Earthquakes, Tohoku, Japan.- A Point-process Analysis of the Matsushiro Earthquake Swarm Sequence: The Effect of Water on Earthquake Occurrence.- Seismic Hazard Evaluation Using Markov Chains: Application to the Japan Area.- Preliminary Analysis of Observations on the Ultra-Low Frequency Electric Field in the Beijing Region.