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Geocomplexity and the Physics of Earthquakes

JB Rundle
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      Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 120.Earthquakes in urban centers are capable of causing enormous damage. The January 16, 1995 Kobe, Japan earthquake was only a magnitude 6.9 event and yet produced an estimated $200 billion loss. Despite an active earthquake prediction program in Japan, this event was a complete surprise. Similar scenarios are possible in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and other urban centers around the Pacific plate boundary. The development of forecast or prediction methodologies for these great damaging earthquakes has been complicated by the fact that the largest events repeat at irregular intervals of hundreds to thousands of years, resulting in a limited historical record that has frustrated phenomenological studies. The papers in this book describe an emerging alternative approach, which is based on a new understanding of earthquake physics arising from the construction and analysis of numerical simulations. With these numerical simulations, earthquake physics now can be investigated in numerical laboratories. Simulation data from numerical experiments can be used to develop theoretical understanding that can be subsequently applied to observed data. These methods have been enabled by the information technology revolution, in which fundamental advances in computing and communications are placing vast computational resources at our disposal.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: JB Rundle EAN: 9780875909783 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 875 g HEIGHT: 274 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: John Wiley & Sons Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2000-01-01 CITY: GENRE: SCIENCE / Physics / Geophysics WIDTH: 224 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      The Earth: natural history: general interest

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      John B. Rundle is the editor of Geocomplexity and the Physics of Earthquakes, published by Wiley. Donald L. Turcotte is an American geophysicist, most famous for his work on the boundary layer theory of mantle convection as part of the theory of plate tectonics.
      Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 120.Earthquakes in urban centers are capable of causing enormous damage. The January 16, 1995 Kobe, Japan earthquake was only a magnitude 6.9 event and yet produced an estimated $200 billion loss. Despite an active earthquake prediction program in Japan, this event was a complete surprise. Similar scenarios are possible in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and other urban centers around the Pacific plate boundary. The development of forecast or prediction methodologies for these great damaging earthquakes has been complicated by the fact that the largest events repeat at irregular intervals of hundreds to thousands of years, resulting in a limited historical record that has frustrated phenomenological studies. The papers in this book describe an emerging alternative approach, which is based on a new understanding of earthquake physics arising from the construction and analysis of numerical simulations. With these numerical simulations, earthquake physics now can be investigated in numerical laboratories. Simulation data from numerical experiments can be used to develop theoretical understanding that can be subsequently applied to observed data. These methods have been enabled by the information technology revolution, in which fundamental advances in computing and communications are placing vast computational resources at our disposal.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: JB Rundle EAN: 9780875909783 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 875 g HEIGHT: 274 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: John Wiley & Sons Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2000-01-01 CITY: GENRE: SCIENCE / Physics / Geophysics WIDTH: 224 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      The Earth: natural history: general interest

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      John B. Rundle is the editor of Geocomplexity and the Physics of Earthquakes, published by Wiley. Donald L. Turcotte is an American geophysicist, most famous for his work on the boundary layer theory of mantle convection as part of the theory of plate tectonics.

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