References#
EQSim is a core component of the SGMD computational backend. This program is described by [1], [2], [3].
Simulated motion evaluation [3], [4], [5], [6].
Kinematic rupture model [7], [8], [9]
SW4 finite difference [10], [11], [12]
David McCallen, Anders Petersson, Arthur Rodgers, Arben Pitarka, Mamun Miah, Floriana Petrone, Bjorn Sjogreen, Norman Abrahamson, and Houjun Tang. EQSIM—A multidisciplinary framework for fault-to-structure earthquake simulations on exascale computers part I: Computational models and workflow. Earthquake Spectra, 37(2):707–735, 2021. doi:10.1177/8755293020970982.
David McCallen, Floriana Petrone, Mamun Miah, Arben Pitarka, Arthur Rodgers, and Norman Abrahamson. EQSIM—A multidisciplinary framework for fault-to-structure earthquake simulations on exascale computers, part II: Regional simulations of building response. Earthquake Spectra, 37(2):736–761, 2021. doi:10.1177/8755293020970980.
Camilo Pinilla-Ramos, Arben Pitarka, David McCallen M. Eeri, and Rie Nakata. Performance evaluation of the USGS velocity model for the San Francisco Bay Area. Earthquake Spectra, 41(1):457–494, 2025. doi:10.1177/87552930241270575.
Floriana Petrone, Arsam Taslimi, Majid Mohammadi Nia, David McCallen, and Arben Pitarka. Ground-motions site and event specificity: Insights from assessing a suite of simulated ground motions in the San Francisco Bay Area. Earthquake Spectra, 40(4):2712–2736, 2024. doi:10.1177/87552930241265132.
Floriana Petrone, Norman Abrahamson, David McCallen, Arben Pitarka, and Arthur Rodgers. Engineering evaluation of the EQSIM simulated ground‐motion database: The San Francisco Bay Area region. Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, 50(15):3939–3961, 2021. doi:10.1002/eqe.3540.
Floriana Petrone, Norman Abrahamson, David McCallen, and Mamun Miah. Validation of (not‐historical) large‐event near‐fault ground‐motion simulations for use in civil engineering applications. Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, 50(1):116–134, 2021. doi:10.1002/eqe.3366.
R. W. Graves and A. Pitarka. Broadband Ground-Motion Simulation Using a Hybrid Approach. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 100:2095–2123, 2010. doi:10.1785/0120100057.
R. Graves and A. Pitarka. Refinements to the Graves and Pitarka (2010) Broadband Ground-Motion Simulation Method. Seismological Research Letters, 86(1):75–80, 2015. doi:10.1785/0220140101.
Arben Pitarka, Robert Graves, Kojiro Irikura, Ken Miyakoshi, Changjiang Wu, Hiroshi Kawase, Arthur Rodgers, and David McCallen. Refinements to the Graves–Pitarka Kinematic Rupture Generator, Including a Dynamically Consistent Slip-Rate Function, Applied to the 2019 Mw 7.1 Ridgecrest Earthquake. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 2021. doi:10.1785/0120210138.
N. Anders Petersson and Björn Sjögreen. Wave propagation in anisotropic elastic materials and curvilinear coordinates using a summation-by-parts finite difference method. Journal of Computational Physics, 299:820–841, 2015. doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2015.07.023.
N. Anders Petersson and Björn Sjögreen. Super-Grid Modeling of the Elastic Wave Equation in Semi-Bounded Domains. Communications in Computational Physics, 16(4):913–955, 2014. doi:10.4208/cicp.290113.220514a.
Lu Zhang, Siyang Wang, and N. Anders Petersson. Elastic Wave Propagation in Curvilinear Coordinates with Mesh Refinement Interfaces by a Fourth Order Finite Difference Method. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 43(2):A1472–A1496, 2021. doi:10.1137/20M1339702.