Application Motivation I: Earthquakes
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