California CVM Meeting - 3 April 2012

Coverage region for UCVM 2D maps (cyan) overlayed upon regions of various California 3D velocity models (CVM-S: red, CVM-H: blue, LinThurber: yellow, Thurber NoCal: green, USGS Bay Area: white) (Image Credit: Patrick Small (USC))

Fig 2:Map of faults in Unified California Earthquake Rupture 2.0 (2007) and proposed coverage region for California CVM. (Image Credit: Kevin Milner (USC))

California CVM Meeting Goals

• Define scientific and technical features wanted by SCEC in a California CVM
• Review capabilities and features of existing California CVMs
• Develop methods for integrating inversion-based improvements into CVMs
• Plan candidate UCVM-CyberShake Model
• Plan SCEC4 UCVM Model

Agenda & Presentations

Introduction and Meeting Goals

• 09:00 Welcome, Introductions, Agenda (P. Maechling)
• 09:15 SCEC4 CVM Scientific Goals ()
• 09:30 Discussion

Existing California CVMs

• 09:45 CVM-H (A. Plesch)
• 10:00 CVM-S (H. Magistrale)
• 10:15 Bay Area Model (B. Aagaard)
• 10:30 Lin-Thurber Tomography Model (G. Lin)
• 10:45 Geotechnical layer (G. Ely)
• 11:00 Discussion
• 11:15 Break

CVM Improvements by Full-3D Tomography

• 11:30 Central California Inversions (C. Tape)
• 11:45 California Inversions (E. Lee)
• 12:00 Re-integration of CVM improvements to CVM (A. Plesch)
• 12:15 Discussion
• 12:30 Lunch

California Velocity Model Development Tools

• 13:30 CVM Software Requirements and CVM Evaluation System (P. Maechling)
• 13:45 Using UCVM software framework to assemble state-wide CVM (P. Small)
• 14:00 Discussion
• 14:15 Break

SCEC California Velocity Model Development Plans

• 14:30 SCEC Geoinformatics Proposal Overview (T. Jordan)
• 14:45 Background model improvements
• 15:00 Basin Model improvements
• 15:15 Geotechnical Layer improvements
• 15:30 Discussion and Next Steps (T. Jordan/G. Beroza)
• 16:00 Adjourn

Related Entries

1. CVM-H
2. CVM-S
3. UCVM
4. Community Velocity Model