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A physics-based earthquake simulator replicates seismic hazard statistics across California

Overview of attention for article published in Science Advances, August 2018
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Title
A physics-based earthquake simulator replicates seismic hazard statistics across California
Published in
Science Advances, August 2018
DOI 10.1126/sciadv.aau0688
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Authors

Bruce E. Shaw, Kevin R. Milner, Edward H. Field, Keith Richards-Dinger, Jacquelyn J. Gilchrist, James H. Dieterich, Thomas H. Jordan

Abstract

Seismic hazard models are important for society, feeding into building codes and hazard mitigation efforts. These models, however, rest on many uncertain assumptions and are difficult to test observationally because of the long recurrence times of large earthquakes. Physics-based earthquake simulators offer a potentially helpful tool, but they face a vast range of fundamental scientific uncertainties. We compare a physics-based earthquake simulator against the latest seismic hazard model for California. Using only uniform parameters in the simulator, we find strikingly good agreement of the long-term shaking hazard compared with the California model. This ability to replicate statistically based seismic hazard estimates by a physics-based model cross-validates standard methods and provides a new alternative approach needing fewer inputs and assumptions for estimating hazard.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 89 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 25 28%
Researcher 16 18%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 7%
Student > Master 5 6%
Unspecified 4 4%
Other 12 13%
Unknown 21 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Earth and Planetary Sciences 44 49%
Engineering 15 17%
Unspecified 4 4%
Social Sciences 1 1%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 1%
Other 1 1%
Unknown 23 26%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 69. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 April 2019.
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#616,040
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#98
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