In seismically active areas (e.g., Han et al., 2022), the best way for disaster mitigation is to enhance the skills of risk evaluation and prediction (Shao et al., 2023). What happens before an earthquake occurs? Which are the physical processes that take place in the Earth's crust before the earthquake nucleates? How can we observe, describe, and model them statistically, numerically, and physically in multi-scales from laboratory samples to tectonic earth plates? Those questions are fundamental but have not been completely solved (Geller, 1997;Pritchard, et al., 2020).Over the last few decades multidisciplinary studies have attempted to answer these fundamental questions (e.g., King, 1978;Ma, 1987; Kanamori and Brodsky, 2001). In the early days, the Institute Physics of the Earth (IPE) model (dry) (Myachkin et al., 1975) and the Dilatance Diffusion (DD) model (wet) (Scholz et al., 1973) were proposed for earthquake processes. Like Schrödinger's cat, an earthquake is unpredictable-according to the IPE model, yet it can be predictable-according to the DD model (Ma, 1987). Recently, with advanced techniques, some scientists have discovered the meta-instable stage before failure to slip (Ma et al., 2012) and assuredly claimed that there are precursors to be used for earthquake forecasting (Ma, 2016), which envisages new opportunities to study earthquake precursors (Pritchard, et al., 2020).An understanding of the governing laws (e.g.,