The USGS 2023 conterminous US time‐independent earthquake rupture forecast

EH Field, KR Milner, AE Hatem… - Bulletin of the …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We present the 2023 US Geological Survey time‐independent earthquake rupture forecast
for the conterminous United States, which gives authoritative estimates of the magnitude …

Enumerating plausible multifault ruptures in complex fault systems with physical constraints

KR Milner, BE Shaw, EH Field - Bulletin of the …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We propose a new model for determining the set of plausible multifault ruptures in an
interconnected fault system. We improve upon the rules used in the Third Uniform California …

3D acoustic-elastic coupling with gravity: the dynamics of the 2018 Palu, Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami

L Krenz, C Uphoff, T Ulrich, AA Gabriel… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
We present a highly scalable 3D fully-coupled Earth & ocean model of earthquake rupture
and tsunami generation and perform the first fully coupled simulation of an actual …

An earthquake simulator for New Zealand

BE Shaw, B Fry, A Nicol, A Howell… - Bulletin of the …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We present an earthquake simulator for New Zealand. It uses the Rate‐and‐State
Earthquake Simulator engine based on approximations of the rate‐and‐state friction …

Basin effects from 3D simulated ground motions in the Greater Los Angeles region for use in seismic hazard analyses

MP Moschetti, EM Thompson… - Earthquake Spectra, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
We develop basin-depth-scaling models (ie “basin terms”) from the long-period (T≥ 2 s)
simulated ground motions of the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) …

Comparison of nonergodic ground‐motion components from CyberShake and NGA‐West2 datasets in California

X Meng, C Goulet, K Milner… - Bulletin of the …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
In this study, we compare the Southern California Earthquake Center CyberShake platform
against the Next Generation Attenuation‐West2 empirical datasets. Because the …

Instantaneous physics-based ground motion maps using reduced-order modeling

JM Rekoske, AA Gabriel, DA May - arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.11335, 2022 - arxiv.org
Physics-based simulations of earthquake ground motion are useful to complement recorded
ground motions. However, the computational expense of performing numerical simulations …

Ground‐Motion Variability from Kinematic Rupture Models and the Implications for Nonergodic Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis

GA Parker, MP Moschetti… - Seismological …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The variability of earthquake ground motions has a strong control on probabilistic seismic
hazard analysis (PSHA), particularly for the low frequencies of exceedance used for critical …

Effect of merging multiscale models on seismic wavefield predictions near the southern San Andreas fault

R Ajala, P Persaud - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Updating Earth models used by the scientific community in geologic studies and hazard
assessment has a significant societal impact but is computationally prohibitive due to the …

Validating predicted site response in sedimentary basins from 3D ground motion simulations

CC Nweke, JP Stewart, RW Graves… - Earthquake …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
We introduce procedures to validate site response in sedimentary basins as predicted using
ground motion simulations. These procedures aim to isolate contributions of site response to …