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Resolving rupture processes of great earthquakes: Reviews and perspective from fast response to joint inversion

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Resolving rupture processes of great earthquakes has fundamental importance to the study of earthquake physics, rupture dynamics, fault zone structure, and evolving processes. It also plays an essential role in earthquake hazard estimation, emergency response and seismic hazard mitigation. This paper reviews the major progress of the earthquake rupture process studies in the last decades, with an emphasize on the research directions of the department geophysics of Peking University including real-time response, back-projection techniques, geodetic data analysis, joint inversion and inversion in complex earth medium. We discussed the advantages and limitations of tradition methods; proposed a systematic and integrated approach from fast-response to detailed study. We also raised perspectives of using source models for ground motion prediction and the possibility of full-dynamic inversion.

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We thank all researchers who contribute to the source inversion and dynamic modeling studies, in terms of developing and validating algorithms, exploring study cases and maintain networks and data accessibility. We especially gratitude professor Chen JI, Don HELMBERGER and Zhenxing YAO for their contribution of developing fundamental inversion algorithms of source studies. We thank Dr. Gavin HAYES and Thorne LAY for the sustained study of great earthquakes and providing research databases. We also thank Professor Kenji SATAKE for his contribution in adopting tsunami data in source inversion. Data availability benefits from the service made by institutes such as IRIS, NIED, UNAVCO and ESA. Software commonly used in source inversion includes SAC, matlab, python, GIPSY, GAMIT, ISCE, GMT. This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2018YFC1504203).

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Yue, H., Zhang, Y., Ge, Z. et al. Resolving rupture processes of great earthquakes: Reviews and perspective from fast response to joint inversion. Sci. China Earth Sci. 63, 492–511 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-019-9549-1

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