[PDF] Top 20 Earthquake source characterization using 3D numerical modeling

... Macroscopic earthquake source parameters provide insight into the processes occurring on the fault plane during ...of earthquake faulting are controlled by how much energy is dissipated as fracture ... See full document

... tracing analysis (e.g., Satake 1988). Figure 10a illustrates the ray tracing results for tsunami propagation routes sourced from an offshore fault along the Sagami Trough. Most of the wave rays up to 80 km offshore from ... See full document

... The source volume, approximately 10,000 m 3 , and the planimetric area of the landslide have been identified from the field observations and aerial images that were collected after the ... See full document

... a 3D, (material) nonlinear, dynamic finite element program specifically developed for high fidelity modeling and simulation of Earthquake Soil/Rock Structure Interaction problems for NPPs on ... See full document

... in earthquake rupture confined within the seismogenic zone, whereas model M2 has dynamic weakening extended deeper into the VS areas below the seismogenic zone, allowing deeper earthquake ...of ... See full document

... Gorkha earthquake source specifically, we design numerical experiments that back project the seismic wave generated by our dynamic source models at two typical frequencies used by previous ... See full document

... a 3D structure using the DiFD. The 3D model has a sharp edge, which separates the western side (normal velocity structure) from eastern side (low velocity zone ... See full document

... smaller earthquake sources, and so they are usually regarded as simple radially symmetric rupture at a constant rupture velocity (Brune, 1970; Eshelby, 1957; Madariaga, ...complicated source processes than ... See full document

... propagation, 3D numer- ical simulation was conducted using the SPH ...the source area, the depth of the sliding surface, and the volume of the landslide mass could be estimated according to the ... See full document

... status using the geographic information system (GIS), and created a perspective view through three-dimensional (3D) ...through 3D simulation, derived an appropriate layout, and applied it to ... See full document

... of earthquake soil-structure interaction (ESSI) requires number of sophisticated modeling and simulation approaches in order to reduce modeling uncertainty and to improve the accuracy of ...the ... See full document

... The results shown in Figure 4 quantify the error of the IDSA with respect to the Boltzmann model. As we fix the discretization error to be smaller than one percent, we know that it contributes less than 0.02 in the graph ... See full document

... Non-planar hydraulic fracture + natural fractures + geomechanics effect 13. Fig. 28 Pressure contour at 3.75 years for Barnett shale reservoir with planar hydraulic 14[r] ... See full document

... the source parameters for the asperities located on the fault plane from the comparisons between the broad-band strong ground mo- tions synthesized considering the nonlinearity of the sed- imentary soils and the ... See full document

... assumed in the analysis and serve as an indication of the correctness of those curves. Finally, it should also be pointed out that, as the size increases, the effective stress-strain or load-displacement curves tend to a ... See full document

... 9.0 earthquake struck off the coast of northeast Honshu, Japan, generating what may well turn out to be the most costly natural disaster ...National Earthquake Information Center led a rapid response to ... See full document

... and Modeling of 3D Spatial Objects for Urban Environment 87 ...A 3D case study performed by using Oracle Spatial and MicroStation Bentley Map provides some knowledge on the 3D ... See full document

... the modeling of potential-field (gra- vity and magnetic) ...malous source is fit to the observed data, then we can calculate the response of such model with a different geometry, ... See full document

... http://stir.sourceforge.net) package is an open source object-oriented library implemented in C++. Although its modular design is suitable for reconstructing data from several modalities, it currently only ... See full document

... D. High-level Parallel Hybrid (HPH): This procedure involves several self-contained algorithms performing a search in parallel, and cooperating to find the optimum solution. Instinctively, HPH will perform at least as ... See full document