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Verifying a Computational Method for Predicting Extreme Ground Motion
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Abstract
Large earthquakes strike infrequently and close-in recordings are uncommon. This situation makes it difficult to predict the ground motion very close to earthquake-generating faults, if the prediction is to be based on readily available observations. A solution might be to cover the Earth with seismic instruments so that one could rely on the data from previous events to predict future shaking. However, even in the case of complete seismic data coverage for hundreds of years, there would still be one type of earthquake that would be difficult to predict: those very rare earthquakes that produce very large ground motion.
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© 2011 Seismological Society of America. Funding for the Rupture Dynamics Code Verification Exercise has come from the Southern California Earthquake Center (funded by NSF Cooperative Agreement EAR-0106924 and USGS Cooperative Agreements 02HQAG0008), internal USGS Earthquake Hazards Program funds, the U.S. Department of Energy Extreme Ground Motions project, and Pacific Gas and Electric Company. Thanks to Tom Jordan for his support of this project and to Phil Maechling for helping us with the logistics of the code-validation Web site. This manuscript benefited from helpful reviews by SRL reviewer Peter Moczo and USGS internal reviewers David Boore and Woody Savage. This is SCEC contribution number 1473.Attached Files
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- NSF
- EAR-0106924
- USGS
- 02HQAG0008
- USGS Earthquake Hazards Program
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- Pacific Gas and Electric Company
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2011-10-04Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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- Seismological Laboratory
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- Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC)
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- 1473