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We present an experimental study of the influence of quenched disorder on the distribution of flux avalanches in type-II superconductors. In the presence of much quenched disorder, the avalanche sizes are power-law distributed and show finite-size scaling, as expected from self-organized criticality (SOC). Furthermore, the shape of the avalanches is …