Comments I -- Jim Dieterich
Obstacles to success
- sociological and technical
- GEM is eventually inevitable -- lets start now
Many different approaches to earthquake modeling
Primary technical/conceptual challenges in EQ modeling
- basic physics input
- physics length and time scales broad
Attainable goals in 5 to 10 years
- what simulations are practical now
- practical goals e.g. ground motions, hazard assessment
- conceptual topics e.g. clustering, synthetic catalog, fault networks