diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 7639a874bdab9f4d9a7175d05c66e6803b70d133..6f6ec6c9dc65fd6d55d64275141f16a4e0488cc2 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -66,6 +66,41 @@ See the *nshmp-haz* user guide [site specification section][4] for more details **Suggested citation:** TBD. +### 2007 Implementation Details (from xml repo v2.1.2; TODO clean) + +Notable implementation details (in fortran source and inputs) that set Alaska 2007 apart from +later COUS models and this updated nshmp-haz implementation of the Alaska model: + +* Grid and slab optimization tables use discretization of 2km out to 200km. + * nshmp-haz: __discretization = 1km__ +* Grid and slab sources use the Wells & Coppersmith (1994) magnitude-length scaling relation. + * nshmp-haz: __slab sources use Youngs et al. (1997)__ (aka 'geomatrix'; consistent with 2014 + COUS NSHM) +* Grid and slab sources randomize strike at M≥6. + * nshmp-haz: __uses point-source distance corrections for M≥6__ (in relations above; consistent + with 2014 COUS NSHM) +* Ground motion models do not impose one-sided 3σ upper truncation on exceedances. + * nshmp-haz: __no change__ +* Other details: + * nshmp-haz: __grid source maxDepth = 15 km__ +* Focal mechansim variations are encoded into coefficients supplied with each input file; flavors + for strike-slip and mixed strike-slip/reverse were ported from the 2002 COUS model. + * nshmp-haz: __point sources generate focal mechanism specific ruptures with appropriate rake + that are processed independently, consistent with 2014 COUS NSHM__ +* Aleatory uncertainty was added in the 2002 COUS model and was carried over here as a + moment-balanced Gaussian distribution on mMax of M±0.15 discretized over 5 values with σ=0.12. + The 2008 COUS model increased the width of the distribution to M±2σ and increased the + discretization to 11 values. Both implementations require custom code; the more recent approach + is more straightforward with the distribution a function of σ. + * nshmp-haz: __uses more recent (11-point; ±2σ) aleatory uncertainty model__ +* Hazard curves are not truncated at 3σ. + * nshmp-haz: __no change__ + +### 2007 Other Notes (from xml repo v2.1.2; TODO clean) + +* Consistent with 2008 and 2014 COUS models, slab and grid Gutenberg-Richter MFD magnitudes bins are centered on 0.05; interface MFD bins are centered on 0.1. + + [1]: https://code.usgs.gov/ghsc/nshmp/nshmp-haz [2]: https://code.usgs.gov/ghsc/nshmp/nshmp-haz/-/blob/main/docs/README.md [3]: https://www.usgs.gov/programs/earthquake-hazards/seismic-hazard-maps-and-site-specific-data