Probabilistic seismic hazard analysis at regional and national scales: State of the art and future challenges

MC Gerstenberger, W Marzocchi, T Allen… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Seismic hazard modeling is a multidisciplinary science that aims to forecast earthquake
occurrence and its resultant ground shaking. Such models consist of a probabilistic …

The New Zealand Community Fault Model–version 1.0: An improved geological foundation for seismic hazard modelling

H Seebeck, R Van Dissen, N Litchfield… - New Zealand Journal …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The New Zealand Community Fault Model (NZ CFM) is a publicly available
representation of New Zealand fault zones that have the potential to produce damaging …

Spatiotemporal clustering of great earthquakes on a transform fault controlled by geometry

JD Howarth, NC Barth, SJ Fitzsimons… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Minor changes in geometry along the length of mature strike-slip faults may act as
conditional barriers to earthquake rupture, terminating some and allowing others to pass …

Community‐driven code comparisons for three‐dimensional dynamic modeling of sequences of earthquakes and aseismic slip

J Jiang, BA Erickson, VR Lambert… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Dynamic modeling of sequences of earthquakes and aseismic slip (SEAS) provides a self‐
consistent, physics‐based framework to connect, interpret, and predict diverse geophysical …

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 …

Toward physics‐based nonergodic PSHA: A prototype fully deterministic seismic hazard model for southern California

KR Milner, BE Shaw, CA Goulet… - Bulletin of the …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We present a nonergodic framework for probabilistic seismic‐hazard analysis (PSHA) that is
constructed entirely of deterministic, physical models. The use of deterministic ground …

Simplifying complex fault data for systems-level analysis: Earthquake geology inputs for US NSHM 2023

AE Hatem, CM Collett, RW Briggs, RD Gold, SJ Angster… - Scientific data, 2022 - nature.com
As part of the US National Seismic Hazard Model (NSHM) update planned for 2023, two
databases were prepared to more completely represent Quaternary-active faulting across …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Deterministic seismic hazard analysis from physics-based earthquake simulations in the Eastern Betics (SE Iberia)

P Herrero-Barbero, JA Álvarez-Gómez, M Tsige… - Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
The low frequency of large destructive earthquakes in the Eastern Betics (SE Iberian
Peninsula), not recorded in the instrumental seismic catalog, complicate the estimation of …

How physics‐based earthquake simulators might help improve earthquake forecasts

EH Field - Seismological Research Letters, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Questions have persisted on the usefulness of physics‐based earthquake simulators with
respect to forecasting earthquakes, due mostly to the inevitable assumptions …