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Foil 17 Application Motivation I: Earthquakes

From Introduction to Computational Science CPS615 Computational Science Class -- Spring Semester 2000. by Geoffrey C. Fox
Kobe 1995 Earthquake caused $200 Billion in damage and was quite unexpected -- the big one(s) in California are expected to be worse
Field Involves Integration of simulation (of earth dynamics) with sensor data (e.g. new GPS satellite measurements of strains http://www.scign.org) and with information gotten from pick and shovel at the fault line.
  • Laboratory experiments on shaking building and measurement of frictions between types of rock materials at faults
Northridge Quake

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