Earthquake Processes: Physical Modelling, Numerical Simulation and Data Analysis Part II

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Mitsuhiro Matsu’ura, Peter Mora, Andrea Donnellan, Xiang-Chu Yin

      Pages 2169-2171

3. Earthquake Cycles, Crustal Deformation and Plate Dynamics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 2173-2173

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   2. 3-D Simulation of Earthquake Generation Cycles and Evolution of Fault Constitutitve Properties

      • Chihiro Hashimoto, Mitsuhiro Matsu’ura

      Pages 2175-2199

   3. Interplate Earthquake Fault Slip During Periodic Earthquake Cycles in a Viscoelastic Medium at a Subduction Zone

      • Kazuro Hirahara

      Pages 2201-2220

   4. Development of a Finite Element Simulator for Crustal Deformation with Large Fault Slipping

      • Zhi Shen Wu, Yun Gao, Yutaka Murakami

      Pages 2221-2237

   5. 3-D Viscoelastic FEM Modeling of Crustal Deformation in Northeast Japan

      • Hisashi Suito, Mikio Iizuka, Kazuro Hirahara

      Pages 2239-2259

   6. Combined GPS and InSAR Models of Postseismic Deformation from the Northridge Earthquake

      • Andrea Donnellan, Jay W. Parker, Gilles Peltzer

      Pages 2261-2270

   7. A Hidden Markov Model Based Tool for Geophysical Data Exploration

      • Robert Granat, Andrea Donnellan

      Pages 2271-2283

   8. Geophysical Applications of Multidimensional Filtering with Wavelets

      • David A. Yuen, Alain P. Vincent, Motoyuki Kido, Ludek Vecsey

      Pages 2285-2309

   9. Large Amplitude Folding in Finely Layered Viscoelastic Rock Structures

      • Hans-Bernd Mühlhaus, Louis Moresi, Bruce Hobbs, Frédéric Dufour

      Pages 2311-2333

   10. Mantle Convection Modeling with Viscoelastic/Brittle Lithosphere: Numerical Methodology and Plate Tectonic Modeling

       • Louis Moresi, Frédéric Dufour, Hans-Bernd Mühlhaus

       Pages 2335-2356

   11. GEM Plate Boundary Simulations for the Plate Boundary Observatory: A Program for Understanding the Physics of Earthquakes on Complex Fault Networks via Observations, Theory and Numerical Simulation

       • John B. Rundle, Paul B. Rundle, William Klein, Jorge De Sa Martins, Kristy F. Tiampo, Andrea Donnellan et al.

       Pages 2357-2381

4. Seismicity Change and its Physical Interpretation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 2383-2383

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   2. Accelerated Seismic Release and Related Aspects of Seismicity Patterns on Earthquake Faults

      • Yehuda Ben-Zion, Vladimir Lyakhovsky

      Pages 2385-2412

   3. Stress Correlation Function Evolution in Lattice Solid Elasto-dynamic Models of Shear and Fracture Zones and Earthquake Prediction

      • Peter Mora, David Place

      Pages 2413-2427

   4. Pattern Dynamics and Forecast Methods in Seismically Active Regions

      • Kristy F. Tiampo, John B. Rundle, Seth A. McGinnis, William Klein

      Pages 2429-2467

   5. Long-range Automaton Models of Earthquakes: Power-law Accelerations, Correlation Evolution, and Mode-switching

      • Dion Weatherley, Peter Mora, Meng Fen Xia

      Pages 2469-2490

   6. Critical Sensitivity and Trans-scale Fluctuations in Catastrophic Rupture

      • Meng Fen Xia, Yu Jie Wei, Fu Jiu Ke, Yi Long Bai

      Pages 2491-2509

   7. Load-Unload Response Ratio and Accelerating Moment/Energy Release Critical Region Scaling and Earthquake Prediction

      • Xiang-Chu Yin, Peter Mora, Keyin Peng, Yu Cang Wang, Dion Weatherley

      Pages 2511-2523

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 in Part II range from the 3-D simulations of earthquake generation cycles and interseismic crustal deformation associated with plate subduction to the development of new methods for analyzing geophysical and geodetical data and new simulation algorithms for large amplitude folding and mantle convection with viscoelastic/brittle lithosphere, as well as a theoretical study of accelerated seismic release on heterogeneous faults, simulation of long-range automaton models of earthquakes, and various approaches to earthquake predicition based on underlying physical and/or statistical models for seismicity change.

• Data Analysis
• Modelling
• Numerical Simulation
• earthquake
• earthquake prediction
• fault
• fault zone
• fracture
• seismic
• subduction

• University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

  Mitsuhiro Matsu’ura

• QUAKES, Dep. Of Earth Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld, Australia

  Peter Mora

• Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, Pasadena, USA

  Andrea Donnellan

• China Academy of Sciences, Laboratory of Nonlinear Mechanics, Institute of Mechanics, Beijing, China

  Xiang-chu Yin

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