SUMMARY: The SCEC Dynamic Rupture Group will convene a workshop in 2018 to start an in-detail examination of the essential ingredients needed to understand earthquakes and produce viable large-earthquake source simulations. In 2018, we will focus on fault geometry. We have invited speakers from both outside and inside our group to present their ideas about the role(s) of fault geometry, both the small scale and the big scale, in determining rupture extent, ground shaking, and seismic hazard. We have knowledge that complex geometry at all scales exists in the field (e.g., Segall and Pollard, 1980 and references therein; Candela et al., 2012, etc.), and we can computationally simulate this roughness at some scales (e.g., Duru and Dunham, 2016; Shi et al., 2013, Ulrich and Gabriel, 2017), but we need to know if fault geometry at all scales makes a difference for earthquake source features such as rupture extent, and if it makes a difference for hazard. 

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2018

PARTICIPANTS

*Remote Participants