A comprehensive fault system inversion approach: Methods and application to NSHM23
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Abstract
We present updated inversion‐based fault‐system solutions for the 2023 update to the National Seismic Hazard Model (NSHM23), standardizing earthquake rate model calculations on crustal faults across the western United States. We build upon the inversion methodology used in the Third Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast (UCERF3) to solve for time‐independent rates of earthquakes in an interconnected fault system. The updated model explicitly maps out a wide range of fault recurrence and segmentation behavior (epistemic uncertainty), more completely exploring the solution space of viable models beyond those of UCERF3. We also improve the simulated annealing implementation, greatly increasing computational efficiency (and thus inversion convergence), and introduce an adaptive constraint weight calculation algorithm that helps to mediate between competing constraints. Hazard calculations show that ingredient changes (especially fault and deformation models) are the primary driver of hazard changes between NSHM23 and UCERF3. Updates to the inversion methodology are also consequential near faults in which the slip rate in UCERF3 was poorly fit or was satisfied primarily using large multifault ruptures that are now restricted by explicit b‐value and segmentation constraints.
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| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | A comprehensive fault system inversion approach: Methods and application to NSHM23 |
| Series title | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America |
| DOI | 10.1785/0120230122 |
| Volume | 114 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Year Published | 2024 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Seismological Society of America |
| Contributing office(s) | Geologic Hazards Science Center - Seismology / Geomagnetism |
| Description | 37 p. |
| First page | 486 |
| Last page | 522 |
| Country | United States |
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