pySATSI: A Python package for computing focal mechanism stress inversions
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Abstract
We introduce pySATSI, a Python package for computing earthquake focal mechanism stress inversions. This algorithm can handle a wide variety of types of stress inversion problems with a single script and can duplicate many capabilities of preceding methodologies. We also add new capabilities that include spatiotemporally variable inversion grids, damped stress estimates for clusters with few or no focal mechanisms, and variable fault‐plane ambiguities that the user can assign to individual events. In addition, we added the ability to use damped stress inversions with fault‐plane ambiguity probabilities that are weighted by fault instabilities. Our algorithm is computationally efficient with faster runtimes than previous algorithms, scales well for large datasets, and can be easily parallelized.
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Skoumal, R.J., Hardebeck, J.L., and Michael, A.J., 2026, pySATSI: A Python package for computing focal mechanism stress inversions: Seismological Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1785/0220250182.
ISSN: 1938-2057 (online)
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | pySATSI: A Python package for computing focal mechanism stress inversions |
| Series title | Seismological Research Letters |
| DOI | 10.1785/0220250182 |
| Edition | Online First |
| Publication Date | January 26, 2026 |
| Year Published | 2026 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Seismological Society of America |
| Contributing office(s) | Earthquake Science Center |