عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
TL48980
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Physics-Based Simulations of Natural Hazards
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Kasey William Schultz
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Rundle, John B.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of California, Davis
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2016
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
115
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
Committee members: Crutchfield, James P.; Turcotte, Donald L.
NOTES PERTAINING TO PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Text of Note
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-20246-5
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
Physics
Body granting the degree
University of California, Davis
Text preceding or following the note
2016
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Earthquakes and tsunamis are some of the most damaging natural disasters that we face. Just two recent events, the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami and the 2011 Haiti earthquake, claimed more than 400,000 lives. Despite their catastrophic impacts on society, our ability to predict these natural disasters is still very limited. The main challenge in studying the earthquake cycle is the non-linear and multi-scale properties of fault networks. Earthquakes are governed by physics across many orders of magnitude of spatial and temporal scales; from the scale of tectonic plates and their evolution over millions of years, down to the scale of rock fracturing over milliseconds to minutes at the sub-centimeter scale during an earthquake. Despite these challenges, there are useful patterns in earthquake occurrence. One such pattern, the frequency-magnitude relation, relates the number of large earthquakes to small earthquakes and forms the basis for assessing earthquake hazard. However the utility of these relations is proportional to the length of our earthquake records, and typical records span at most a few hundred years. Utilizing physics based interactions and techniques from statistical physics, earthquake simulations provide rich earthquake catalogs allowing us to measure otherwise unobservable statistics.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Geophysics; Physics
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Pure sciences;Earth sciences;Earthquakes;Tectonic plates;Tsunamis
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Al-Sharji, Alshaatha
PERSONAL NAME - SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITY
Rundle, John B.
CORPORATE BODY NAME - SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITY
Subdivision
Physics
University of California, Davis
LOCATION AND CALL NUMBER
Call Number
1832932774; 10165870
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
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[Thesis]
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