SCEC Award Number 10083 View PDF
Proposal Category Individual Proposal (Data Gathering and Products)
Proposal Title Enhancements to the next generation Community Velocity Model (CVM-H)
Investigator(s)
Name Organization
John H. Shaw Harvard University
Other Participants Andreas Plesch (Harvard)
SCEC Priorities C, B, B4 SCEC Groups USR, GMP, Seismology
Report Due Date 02/28/2011 Date Report Submitted N/A
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Intellectual Merit This project represents a fundamental component of the USR Focus Area efforts to development community velocity models that are enhanced and evaluated using 3D waveform tomography. These improved models are used as the basis for simulations to forecast the distribution of hazardous ground shaking during large earthquakes, as well as in many other SCEC science efforts.
Broader Impacts This project involved a post-doctoral research fellow, a senior research associate, and the PI. The project made a series of improvement to these models, which will enable more accurate earthquake hazard forecasting. The benefits to society are manifest in more accurate strong ground motion simulations based on these models that can be use to assess and mitigate earthquake hazards and risks in southern California.
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