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2006 Annual Meeting: Extreme Ground Motion Workshop
First Annual Extreme Ground Motion (ExGM) Research Results Meeting
September 13-14, 2006

Organizers: Tom Hanks, Paul Somerville

Details forthcoming.


Meeting Agenda

Wednesday, September 13 (1:00 - 6:00 pm)
13:00INTRODUCTION
Hanks: ExGM Research
Abrahamson: Implementation of ExGM Research at Yucca Mountain
  1. GM generation
  2. YM specific constraints on freq of occur of GM
  3. General constraints on freq of occur of source parameters and GM
  4. New PSHA Guidelines

TASK A: Physical Limits
13:40Board: Synthesis Report on Yucca Mountain structure models

Source Physics Groups
14:10Andrews: Updated model and results
14:40Purvance/Cundall: Model (plan) and preliminary results
15:10Break
15:30Rice: SCEC group approach
16:00Beeler/Lockner: Physical Limits on Crustal Earthquake Stress Drops
16:15Discussion

Wave Propagation Groups
16:45Damjanac: Non-linear wave propagation modeling
17:15Day: Non-linear wave propagation modeling
17:30Discussion
18:00(end of day)
Thurs, Sep 14 (8:30 am - 5:00 pm)

TASK A: Physical Limits
08:30Harris/Somerville: Dynamic Rupture Codes
(includes dynamic models for surface rupturing faults)
09:00Archuleta: equivalent kinematic models
09:30Graves: standard platform for kinematic models
10:00Discussion
10:30Break

Task B: Unexceeded Ground Motions/Faulting Displacements

Ground Motion
10:45Brune/Whitney: Synthesis report on Unexceeded Ground Motions
11:15Whitney/Brune/Antoun: Extreme ground motions from UNEs
11:45Discussion
12:00Lunch (12:00 - 1:00)

Faulting Displacements
13:00Whitney: Synthesis report on YM single-event faults displacements
13:30Schwartz: Synthesis report on Basin and Range singe-event faulting displacements

Task C: Event Frequency of Occurrence
14:00Anderson: Empirical outliers
14:30Abrahamson: Vertical outliers: timing between vertical & horizontal
15:00Dewey: mb-Ms data and stress-drop scaling
15:30Break

Task D: PSHA
15:45Abrahamson

SUMMARY/WRAP UP/Final discussion
16:15Abrahamson
16:47Adjourn




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