2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/116076This chapter introduces the fracture nucleation process, their (extreme) statistics in disordered solids, in fiber bundle models, and in the two fractal overlap models of earthquake.15 pages 11 figs, from: Modelling Critical & Catastrophic Phenomena in Geoscience: A Statistical Physics Approach; Eds. P. Bhattacharyya & B. K. Chakrabarti, Springer, Heidelberg (2005), pp. 3-26Statistical MechanicsMaterials Sciencetext