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The limitation of modeling complicated crust structures is one cause of difficulty in studying earthquake phenomena. When a stochastic model is used, the homogenization techniques based on the bounding medium theory, which constructs two deterministic models that bound the mean behavior of the stochastic model, enables us to efficiently analyze the model with the evaluation of variability of the earthquake processes. This paper presents the application of the homogenization techniques to two earthquake problems, the earthquake wave propagation and the surface earthquake fault formation. Numerical simulation is made and the results are compared with available data.
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Hori, M., Ichimura, T., Nakagawa, H. (2003). Homogenization Techniques Applied to Earthquake Problems. In: Movchan, A.B. (eds) IUTAM Symposium on Asymptotics, Singularities and Homogenisation in Problems of Mechanics. Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 113. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2604-8_33
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