John B. Rundle
Department of Physics
Colorado Center for Chaos and Complexity, and CIRES
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309
rundle@hopfield.colorado.edu
Tom Henyey
Department of Earth Sciences and SCEC
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0742
J.-Bernard Minster
IGPP, Scripps Institute of Oceanography
University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093
Geoffrey Fox
Department of Physics
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244-4100
General Earthquake Models (GEM) are realistic, high performance computational simulations of earthquake processes on individual and systems of faults within the earthÕs crust. Recently, advances have been made on understanding specific aspects of earthquake processes on various spatial and time scales, however the efforts have generally been carried out by individual scientists, leaving the field of earthquake science somewhat disjointed and not well integrated. The next logical step will be to bridge the gaps between models of various scales, which will greatly advance our understanding of earthquake processes.