Computational Earthquake Physics: Simulations, Analysis and Infrastructure, Part I

Exciting developments in earthquake science have benefited from new observations, improved computational technologies, and improved modeling capabilities. Designing realistic supercomputer simulation models for the complete earthquake generation process is a grand scientific challenge due to the complexity of phenomena and range of scales involved from microscopic to global.

The book is divided into two parts: The present volume - Part I - focuses on microscopic simulation, scaling physics, dynamic rapture and wave propagation, earthquake generation, cycle and seismic pattern. Topics covered range from numerical developments, rupture and gouge studies of the particle model, Liquefied Cracks and Rayleigh Wave Physics, studies of catastrophic failure and critical sensitivity, numerical and theoretical studies of crack propagation, developments in finite difference methods for modeling faults, long time scale simulation of interacting fault systems, modeling of crustal deformation, through to mantle convection.

• Earthquake Physics
• digital elevation model
• dynamic rapture
• earthquake generation
• microscopic simulation
• scaling physics
• wave propagation

• Institute of Earthquake Science, Chinese Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China

  Xiang-chu Yin

• Earth Systems Science Computational Centre, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

  Peter Mora

• Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, USA

  Andrea Donnellan

• Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

  Mitsuhiro Matsu’ura

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