Computational Earthquake Physics: Simulations, Analysis and Infrastructure, Part I - Pageoph Topical Volumes 2006 edition

Marc Notes: Reprint from Pure and applied geophysics (PAGEOPH), volume 163 (2006), no. 9--Pt. 1, t.p. verso.; Reprint from Pure and applied geophysics (PAGEOPH), volume 163 (2006), no. 10--Pt. 2, t.p. verso.; Includes bibliographical references. Table of Contents: Computational Earthquake Physics PART I: Introduction.- Fracture of a Liquefied Crack and the Physics of Rayleigh Waves.- Experimental Evidence of Critical Sensitivity in Catastrophe.- Implementation of Particle-scale Rotation in the 3-D Lattice Solid Model.- Numerical and Experimental Study on Progressive Failure of Marble.- 3-D Simulation of Tectonic Loading at Convergent Plate Boundary Zones: Internal Stress Fields in Northeast Japan.- Virtual California: Fault Model, Frictional Parameters, Applications.- Catastrophic Rupture Induced Damage Coalescence in Heterogeneous Brittle Media.- Differences Between Mode I and Mode II Crack Propagation.- Dynamic Rupture in a 3-D Particle-based Simulation of a Rough Planar Fault.- Numerical Simulation of the Effect of a DC Electric Field on Seismic Wave Propagation with the Pseudospectral Time Domain Method.- Quartz Rheology and Short-time-scale Crustal Instabilities.- Recurrence Interval Statistics of Cellular Automaton Seismicity Models.- Parallel 3-D Simulation of a Fault Gouge Using the Lattice Solid Model.- Benioff Strain Release Before Earthquakes in China: Accelerating or Not?.- Improvement in the Fault Boundary Conditions for a Staggered Grid Finite-difference Method.- The Displacement and Strain Field of Three-dimensional Rheologic Model of Earthquake Preparation.- Deformations in Transform Faults with Rotating Crustal Blocks.- Elasticity, Yielding and Episodicity in Simple Models of Mantle Convection.