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Earthquake Processes: Physical Modelling, Numerical Simulation and Data Analysis Part I (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002)
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Earthquake Processes: Physical Modelling, Numerical Simulation and Data Analysis Part I (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002)
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In the last decade of the 20th century, there has been great
progress in the physics of earthquake generation; that is, the
introduction of laboratory-based fault constitutive laws as a basic
equation governing earthquake rupture, quantitative description of
tectonic loading driven by plate motion, and a microscopic approach
to study fault zone processes. The fault constitutive law plays the
role of an interface between microscopic processes in fault zones
and macroscopic processes of a fault system, and the plate motion
connects diverse crustal activities with mantle dynamics. An
ambitious challenge for us is to develop realistic computer
simulation models for the complete earthquake process on the basis
of microphysics in fault zones and macro-dynamics in the
crust-mantle system. Recent advances in high performance computer
technology and numerical simulation methodology are bringing this
vision within reach. The book consists of two parts and presents a
cross-section of cutting-edge research in the field of
computational earthquake physics. Part I includes works on
microphysics of rupture and fault constitutive laws, and dynamic
rupture, wave propagation and strong ground motion. Part II covers
earthquake cycles, crustal deformation, plate dynamics, and
seismicity change and its physical interpretation. Topics covered
in Part I range from the microscopic simulation and laboratory
studies of rock fracture and the underlying mechanism for
nucleation and catastrophic failure to the development of
theoretical models of frictional behaviors of faults; as well as
the simulation studies of dynamic rupture processes and seismic
wave propagation in a 3-D heterogeneous medium, to the case studies
of strong ground motions from the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake and
seismic hazard estimation for Cascadian subduction zone
earthquakes.
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