Let (Xn,i )1≤i≤n,n∈N be a triangular array of row-wise stationary Rd valued random variables. We use a “blocks method” to define clusters of extreme values: the rows of (Xn,i ) are divided into mn blocks (Yn,j ), and if a block contains at least one extreme value, the block is considered to contain a cluster. The cluster starts at the first extreme value in the block and ends at the last one. T...