SCEC Award Number 14030 View PDF
Proposal Category Individual Proposal (Integration and Theory)
Proposal Title Improvement of Earthquake Simulators and Evaluating Forecast Skill
Investigator(s)
Name Organization
John Rundle University of California, Davis
Other Participants
SCEC Priorities 1e, 2e, 3d SCEC Groups CSEP, WGCEP, Simulators
Report Due Date 03/15/2015 Date Report Submitted N/A
Project Abstract
 During this year, we proposed to work on several topics and we have made progress on all of them. We ported/posted codes to public code repositories such as GIT, along with improved documentation, so that colleagues can more readily use and test the codes under development. We are further more developing new forecast methods using Virtual Quake, and are developing systematic tests of earthquake simulators.
Intellectual Merit We have developed new capabilities for simulating and understanding complex earthquake fault systems. We have also laid the groundwork for comprehensive methods to forecast future events.
Broader Impacts The Virtual Quake code is being used by a broad array of students and researchers in over 20 different countries. It has been downloaded from the repository and is in use world wide. The software and extensive documentation allow easy use by a wide community of researchers.
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