SSA 2010 Special Session: Numerical Prediction of Earthquake Ground Motion

Please consider contributing to the special session described below, to be held at the SSA Annual Meeting, April 21-23, 2010, in Portland, Oregon. The abstract submission deadline is January 12, 2010. Thank you.

Numerical Prediction of Earthquake Ground Motion

The last decade has witnessed significant improvements and developments in numerical methods for predicting earthquake ground motion in heterogeneous 3D media. By combining this methodological progress with increasing computational resources, it is becoming technically feasible to calculate realistic seismograms for frequencies of interest in seismic design applications.

The aim of this session is to give an up-to-date view of the capabilities to numerically predict earthquake ground motion, and to identify the challenges in fostering the use of numerical simulation in quantitative seismic hazard assessment.

We invite contributions focused on numerical modeling of earthquake ground motion, in particular on method development, verification and validation, and application to realistic cases. We strongly encourage contributions presenting large-scale simulations in heterogeneous media, possibly including spontaneous rupture, non- linear sediment response, and site-structure interaction.

Conveners:

* Emmanuel Chaljub (Emmanuel.Chaljub@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr)
* Steven M. Day (day@moho.sdsu.edu)
* Peter Moczo (Peter.Moczo@fmph.uniba.sk)