SCEC Award Number 10098 View PDF
Proposal Category Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory)
Proposal Title Understanding discrepancies between geologic and geodetic fault slip rate estimates using three-dimensional kinematically consistent block models and time-variable earthquake cycle models
Investigator(s)
Name Organization
Brendan Meade Harvard University
Other Participants Loveless, Jack
SCEC Priorities A2, A3, A10 SCEC Groups Geodesy, CDM, SHRA
Report Due Date 02/28/2011 Date Report Submitted N/A
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Intellectual Merit This project provided insight into the discrepancy between geologic and geodetic slip rates in two ways: 1) Understanding the importance of high-resolutin fault system geometry in the CFM compared to that of the CFM-R, and 2) Developing a statistical expectation for the expected discrepancy between geologic and geodetic models as a function of errors in model parameterization. Part 2 proved to be more promising than part 1.
Broader Impacts This work supported one postdoctoral fellow at Harvard (Jack Loveless). While not funded by this grant, graduate student Phoebe Robinson has become as a part of this effort through the application of her viscoelastic block models.
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