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Virtual Quake: Statistics, Co-seismic Deformations and Gravity Changes for Driven Earthquake Fault Systems

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International Symposium on Geodesy for Earthquake and Natural Hazards (GENAH)

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Abstract

With the ever increasing number of geodetic monitoring satellites, it is vital to have a variety of geophysical simulations produce synthetic datasets. Furthermore, just as hurricane forecasts are derived from the consensus among multiple atmospheric models, earthquake forecasts cannot be derived from a single comprehensive model. Here we present the functionality of Virtual Quake (formerly known as Virtual California), a numerical simulator that can generate sample co-seismic deformations, gravity changes, and InSAR interferograms in addition to producing probabilities for earthquake scenarios.Virtual Quake is now hosted by the Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics. It is available for download and comes with a user manual. The manual includes a description of the simulator physics, instructions for generating fault models from scratch, and a guide to deploying the simulator in a parallel computing environment. http://geodynamics.org/cig/software/vq/.

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Acknowledgements

This research was supported by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Earth and Space Science fellowship number NNX11AL92H. The release version of Virtual California and the Users’ Manual are hosted by the Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics which is supported by NSF Grant EAR-0949446.

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  1. Department of Physics, University of California-Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, 95616, USA

    Kasey W. Schultz, Michael K. Sachs, Mark R. Yoder & John B. Rundle

  2. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California-Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, 95616, USA

    John B. Rundle, Don L. Turcotte & Eric M. Heien

  3. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

    Andrea Donnellan

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Schultz, K.W. et al. (2015). Virtual Quake: Statistics, Co-seismic Deformations and Gravity Changes for Driven Earthquake Fault Systems. In: Hashimoto, M. (eds) International Symposium on Geodesy for Earthquake and Natural Hazards (GENAH). International Association of Geodesy Symposia, vol 145. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/1345_2015_134

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