SCEC Award Number 13118 View PDF
Proposal Category Collaborative Proposal (Integration and Theory)
Proposal Title A Multi-Institutional Collaborative Project: Source Inversion Validation
Investigator(s)
Name Organization
Paul Martin Mai King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Saudi Arabia) Danijel Schorlemmer University of Southern California Morgan Page United States Geological Survey Jean Paul Ampuero California Institute of Technology
Other Participants
SCEC Priorities 2, 3, 6 SCEC Groups Seismology, FARM, SIV
Report Due Date 05/23/2015 Date Report Submitted N/A
Project Abstract
 Around the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Seismological Society of America (SSA) in Pasadena (April 21-23, 2015), the SIV Leadership met at two occasions to discuss the strategy for the SIV efforts and the upcoming benchmarks. These meetings included several SIV participants. The discussion topics -- and decisions taken -- are related to the SIV Leadership, the development of the new benchmark, and upcoming publications.
Intellectual Merit The SIV Tag is an integral part to better understand what we can learn from earthquake source inversions. Through several benchmarks and quantitative statistical analysis of the submitted finite-fault source models, we examine the strength and limitations of various source-inversion methods.
Broader Impacts Earthquake source inversions are key to image the kinematics of the earthquake rupture process. As such, they help to study and understand earthquake mechanics, the dynamic rupture process, and strong-ground-motion generation.
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