Advanced Workshop on Earthquake Fault Mechanics: Theory, Simulation and Observations

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Description

The school will focus on earthquake dynamics covering theory, simulations and observations also highlighting the most important areas where significant progress has been achieved recently. The programme will involve a series of lectures, seminars, discussions, practical and computer exercises.

TOPICS:

Theoretical earthquake dynamics
Computational earthquake dynamics
Earthquake cycle modeling
Connecting earthquake models to observations
Kinematic earthquake source inversion
Dynamic source inversion
Rupture imaging
Applications and recent progress

GRANTS:

A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.

Material

General Information List of Participants Poster group photo

Advanced Workshop on Earthquake Fault Mechanics: Theory, Simulation and Observations | (smr 3319)

Go to day

Monday, 2 September 2019

08:30 - 10:00 Free time to collect living allowance and travel reimbursement at Enrico Fermi Building, Travel unit (Open Mon. and Fri. only)
- 09:30 Coffee break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )

10:00 - 18:00 Introduction

10:00 Overview, motivations, observations, open questions 1h30'

Speaker:	Jean Paul Ampuero (GEOAZUR, Nice, France / CALTECH, Pasadena, USA)
Material:	Slides

11:30 Fracture Mechanics 1h30'

Speaker:	Jean Paul Ampuero (GEOAZUR, Nice, France / CALTECH, Pasadena, USA)
Material:	Slides

13:00 Lunch 1h30'
14:30 Fracture mechanics (continued) 1h30'

Speaker: Jean Paul Ampuero (GEOAZUR, Nice, France / CALTECH, Pasadena, USA)
16:00 Coffee break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )

16:30 Fault friction for dynamic rupture modeling 1h30'

Speaker:	Jean Paul Ampuero (GEOAZUR, Nice, France / CALTECH, Pasadena, USA)
Material:	Slides

18:30 - 19:30 Ice-Breaker ( Adriatico Guesthouse Cafeteria )

Tuesday, 3 September 2019

09:00 - 19:30 Theoretical and computational earthquake dynamics

09:00 Fault friction for dynamic rupture modeling (continued) 1h30'

Speaker: Jean Paul Ampuero (GEOAZUR, Nice, France / CALTECH, Pasadena, USA)
10:30 Coffee break 30'

11:00 Beyond friction: off-fault dissipation 1h30'

Speaker:	Jean Paul Ampuero (GEOAZUR, Nice, France / CALTECH, Pasadena, USA)
Material:	Slides

12:30 Lunch 1h30'

14:00 Dynamic rupture simulation methods 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall )

Speaker:	Luis Dalguer (Kyoto University, Osaka, Japan)
Material:	Slides

15:30 Coffee break 30'

16:00 Practice: Dynamic rupture in 2D and 2.5D 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Lab )

Speaker:	Huihui Weng (GEOAZUR, Nice, France)
Material:	Slides

Wednesday, 4 September 2019

09:00 - 17:30 Computational earthquake dynamics

09:00 3D rupture effects: seismogenic width and rake 1h30'

Speaker:	Huihui Weng (GEOAZUR, Nice, France)
Material:	Slides

10:30 Coffee break 30'

11:00 3D dynamic rupture modeling 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall )

Speaker:	Alice Gabriel (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany)
Material:	Slides

12:30 Lunch 1h30'

14:00 Practice: dynamic rupture in 3D 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Lab )

Speaker:	Alice Gabriel, Duo Li (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany)
Material:	Slides

15:30 Coffee break 30'
16:00 Practice (cont’d): dynamic rupture in 3D 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Lab )

Speaker: Alice Gabriel, Duo Li (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany)

Thursday, 5 September 2019

09:00 - 18:30 Connecting earthquake models to observations

09:00 Ground motions from dynamic models, contribution of earthquake dynamics to strong ground motion prediction 1h30'

Speaker:	Luis Dalguer (Kyoto University, Osaka, Japan)
Material:	Slides

10:30 Coffee break 30'
11:00 Ground motions from dynamic models, contribution of earthquake dynamics to strong ground motion prediction (continued) 1h30'
12:30 Lunch 1h30'
14:00 IUGG, natural hazards and society 1h0'

Speaker: A. Ismail-Zadeh, IUGG

15:00 Effect of seismogenic width on stepover rupture jumps 1h30'

Speaker:	Jean-Paul Ampuero
Material:	Slides

16:30 Coffee break 30'
17:00 Practice: dynamic rupture (continued) 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Laboratory )

Speaker: Huihui Weng, Duo Li

18:30 - 20:00 Reception buffet ( Adriatico Guesthouse Cafeteria )

Friday, 6 September 2019

09:00 - 17:30 Kinematic earthquake source inversion

Location:

Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall

09:00 Macroscopic source properties: source time functions, corner frequency, radiated energy, scaling laws 1h30'

Speaker:	Jean-Paul Ampuero
Material:	Slides

10:30 Coffee break 30'

11:00 Finite source inversion 1h30'

Speaker:	Jean-Paul Ampuero
Material:	Slides

12:30 Lunch 1h30'
14:00 Finite source inversion (continued) 1h30'

Speaker: Jean-Paul Ampuero
15:30 Coffee break 30'
16:00 Practice: finite source inversion 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Lab )

Material: Slides

Saturday, 7 September 2019
- 08:30 - 13:00
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 08:30 Active deformation and Earthquakes in Italy and surroundings 1h30'
    
    Speaker: Karim Aoudia (ICTP, Trieste, Italy)
  - 10:00 Coffee break 30'
  - 10:30 Bridging the gap between seismology and engineering 1h30'
    
    Speaker: Stefano Parolai (INOGS, Trieste, Italy)
  - 12:00 Lunch 1h0'
- 13:00 - 22:00 Field trip to Civil Protection headquarters in Palmanova, followed by visit to Venzone, near the epicenter of the 1976 Friuli earthquake, dinner, return by 22:00
  
  Location:

Monday, 9 September 2019

09:00 - 17:30 Dynamic source inversion and strong motion

Location:

Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall

09:00 How to use seismological data to infer fault friction properties and stress 1h30'

Speaker:	Elisa Tinti (INGV, Rome, Italy)
Material:	Slides

10:30 Coffee break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Terrace )
11:00 How to use seismological data to infer fault friction properties and stress (continued) 1h30'

Speaker: Elisa Tinti (INGV, Rome, Italy)
12:30 Lunch 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )

14:00 Impact of uncertainties of crustal model and source variability on ground motions 1h30'

Speaker:	Elisa Tinti (INGV, Rome, Italy)
Material:	Slides

15:30 Coffee break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Terrace )

16:00 Dynamic source inversion 1h30'

Speaker:	Jean Paul Ampuero (GEOAZUR, Nice, France / CALTECH, Pasadena, USA)
Material:	Slides

Tuesday, 10 September 2019

09:00 - 17:30 Earthquake cycle modeling

09:00 Friction laws for seismic and aseismic faulting 1h30'

Speaker:	Marco Scuderi (La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy)
Material:	Slides

10:30 Coffee break 30'
11:00 Friction laws for seismic and aseismic faulting (continued) 1h30'

Speaker: Marco Scuderi (La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy)
12:30 Lunch 1h30'

14:00 The stability of frictional sliding and the spectrum of fault slip behavior from slow to fast stick-slip 1h30'

Speaker:	Marco Scuderi (Universita' di Roma, La Sapienza)
Material:	Slides

15:30 Coffee break 30'

16:00 Practice: Earthquake cycle modeling 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Lab )

Speaker:	Jean-Paul Ampuero (GEOAZUR, Nice, France)
Material:	Slides

18:30 - 20:00 Reception buffet ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )

Wednesday, 11 September 2019

09:00 - 17:30 Rupture imaging by back-projection

Location:

Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall

09:00 Array seismology and rupture imaging 1h30'

Speaker:	Lingsen Meng (Earthquake Research Institute of Tokyo, Japan)
Material:	Slides

10:30 Coffee break 30'

11:00 Array seismology and rupture imaging II 1h30'

Speaker:	Lingsen Meng (Earthquake Research Institute of Tokyo, Japan)
Material:	Slides

12:30 Lunch 1h30'

14:00 Practice: MUSIC teleseismic back-projection 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Lab )

Speaker:	Lingsen Meng (Earthquake Research Institute of Tokyo, Japan)
Material:	Slides

15:30 Coffee break 30'

16:00 Applications to earthquake early warning, tsunami warning, rapid hazard assessment 1h30'

Speaker:	Lingsen Meng (Earthquake Research Institute of Tokyo, Japan)
Material:	Slides

19:30 - 21:00 Dinner at Leonardo Building

Adriatico Guesthouse Cafeteria will be reserved for a reception. Dinner will be served exceptionally at the Leonardo Building cafeteria.

Location:

Thursday, 12 September 2019

09:00 - 17:30 Earthquake cycle modeling

09:00 Discussion of questions by participants 1h30'

Material: Slides
10:30 Coffee break 30'

11:00 Micro-mechanical friction models 1h30'

Speaker:	Martijn van den Ende (GEOAZUR, Nice, France)
Material:	Slides

12:30 Lunch 1h30'

14:00 Practice: Earthquake cycle modeling with QDYN 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Laboratory )

Speaker:	Martijn van den Ende (GEOAZUR, Nice, France)
Material:	Slides

15:30 Coffee break 30'

16:00 Induced Seismicity 1h30'

Speaker:	Yihe Huang (University of Michigan, USA)
Material:	Slides

Friday, 13 September 2019

09:00 - 17:30 Machine learning in seismology

09:00 General overview of machine learning 1h30'

Speaker:	Martijn van den Ende (GEOAZUR, Nice, France)
Material:	Slides

10:30 Coffee break 30'

11:00 Machine learning in geosciences 1h30'

Speaker:	Martijn van den Ende (GEOAZUR, Nice, France)
Material:	Slides

12:30 Lunch 1h30'

14:00 Best practices and pitfalls 1h30'

Speaker:	Martijn van den Ende (GEOAZUR, Nice, France)
Material:	Slides

15:30 Coffee break 30'

16:00 Random forest method 1h30'

Speaker:	Martijn van den Ende (GEOAZUR, Nice, France)
Material:	Slides

Saturday, 14 September 2019

09:00 - 12:30 Workshop recap and closing

Location:

Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall

09:00 Earthquake nucleation 1h30'

Speaker:	Jean-Paul Ampuero
Material:	Slides

10:30 Coffee break 30'
11:00 Closing remarks 1h30'