For oceanographic research, remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs) routinely
record several hours of video material each day. Manual processing of such large amounts …

Computer simulations of large (M≥ 7.8) earthquakes rupturing the southern San Andreas
Fault from SE to NW (eg, ShakeOut, widely used for earthquake drills) have predicted strong …

The omission of nonlinear effects in large-scale 3D ground motion estimation, which are
particularly challenging due to memory and scalability issues, can result in costly …

We have implemented and verified a parallel‐series Iwan‐type nonlinear model in a 3D
fourth‐order staggered‐grid velocity–stress finite‐difference method. The Masing unloading …

Previous studies have shown that plastic yielding in crustal rocks in the fault zone may
impose a physical limit to extreme ground motions. We explore the effects of fault-zone …

Site effects in the city of Sion in the Rhône valley are analysed from weak motion signals
recorded on a dense temporary array. We simulate the recorded events with a 3-D finite …

In this thesis earthquake site effects in the Rhône valley, Switzerland, are studied with
observational and theoretical methods. In the first part shear-wave velocities of the Rhône …

We performed 3-D nonlinear-viscoelastic ground motion simulations using a finite difference
modeling method in a frequency range of 0.1 to 1 Hz in the Kinburn basin, Ottawa, Canada …

Large-scale simulations of time-dependent partial differential equations are, at present,
largely reliant on massively parallel computers. As a result, the parallel scalability of …

A major challenge in seismic hazard assessment consists in the prediction of near-source
ground motions resulting from large, rare earthquakes, which are not well represented in …