[CIG-SHORT] Repeating ruptures

[Brad Aagaard]

Romain,

You are using the correct mechanism for specifying multiple prescribed 
slip (kinematic) ruptures. You must create the eqsrcs array with all of 
the sources. You can specify the origin time for each one individually 
along with different spatial variations in slip and rupture time 
(relative to the origin time). If you have a lot of ruptures, then you 
may want to generate the .cfg file via a shell or python script.

Regards,
Brad



On 4/6/12 4:21 PM, Romain Jolivet wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a new pylith user. I started working on subductions with Mark Simons
> two months ago, and I'm now trying to set up an earthquake cycle model.
>
> My problem, for now, is very simple: I have a dipping fault embedded in
> a 2D elastic homogeneous medium. The deeper part of the dislocation
> creeps at 4 cm/yr, while the upper part does rupture every 100 years. I
> managed to do it over a few hundred years: following the pylith manual,
> I create an array containing each rupture in the cfg file:
>
> bc = [creep,one,two,three,four]
>
> Then, I just copy the conditions for each rupture. However, as my
> ruptures happen every 100 years, and are all the same, is it possible to
> specify it in a more clever way (with a TIME HISTORY spatialdb file, for
> instance)?
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> Romain
>
> Romain Jolivet
> Postdoctoral Scholar
> Geological and Planetary Sciences
> California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
> rjolivet at caltech.edu <mailto:rjolivet at caltech.edu>
> +1 (626) 560 6356
>
>
>
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