A note on adding viscoelasticity to earthquake simulators
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Abstract
Here, I describe how time‐dependent quasi‐static stress transfer can be implemented in an earthquake simulator code that is used to generate long synthetic seismicity catalogs. Most existing seismicity simulators use precomputed static stress interaction coefficients to rapidly implement static stress transfer in fault networks with typically tens of thousands of fault patches. The extension to quasi‐static deformation, which accounts for viscoelasticity of Earth’s ductile lower crust and mantle, involves the precomputation of additional interaction coefficients that represent time‐dependent stress transfer among the model fault patches, combined with defining and evolving additional state variables that track this stress transfer. The new approach is illustrated with application to a California‐wide synthetic fault network.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | A note on adding viscoelasticity to earthquake simulators |
| Series title | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America |
| DOI | 10.1785/0120160192 |
| Volume | 107 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Year Published | 2017 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Seismological Society of America |
| Contributing office(s) | Earthquake Science Center |
| Description | 7 p. |
| First page | 468 |
| Last page | 474 |
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