“…Since early studies in 1960s (e.g., Scholz, 1968), impulsive acoustic emission events observed during the rock physics experiments are often considered as analog of natural earthquakes and are used to study the seismogenic processes in controlled laboratory conditions (e.g., Bolton et al., 2023; Lockner et al., 1991; Marty et al., 2023; McLaskey & Kilgore, 2013; V. B. Smirnov et al., 2019; Yoshimitsu et al., 2014). Analyses of large catalogs of “laboratory earthquakes” demonstrated that they obey statistical distributions similar to “natural” earthquakes.…”