In recent years, large earthquakes in the circum-Pacific region have repeatedly demonstrated its particular vulnerability to this potentially devastating natural hazard, including the M ~ 9.2 Northern Sumatra earthquake and tsunami of 2004 which resulted in the deaths of nearly 300,000 people. In the late-1990s, major advancements in seismic research greatly added to the understanding of earthquake fault systems, as large quantities of new and extensive remote sensing data sets, that provided information on the solid earth on scales previously inaccessible, were integrated with a combination of innovative analysis techniques and advanced numerical and computational methods implemented on high-performance computers. This book includes a variety of studies that focus on the modeling of tsunamis and earthquakes, both large-scale simulation and visualization programs, as well as detailed models of small-scale features. Particular attention is paid to computational techniques, languages, and hardware that can be used to facilitate data analysis, visualization, and modeling. Also included are studies of several earthquake forecasting techniques and associated comparisons of their results with historic earthquake data. Finally, the volume ends with theoretical analyses of statistical properties of seismicity by internationally recognized experts in the field. This volume will be of particular interest to researchers interested in the multiscale simulation and visualization of large earthquakes and tsunamis.

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Earthquakes: Simulations, Sources and Tsunamis.- Finite Fault Modeling in a Tsunami Warning Center Context.- Modeling and Visualization of Tsunamis.- Geophysical Finite-Element Simulation Tool (GeoFEST): Algorithms and Validation for Quasistatic Regional Faulted Crust Problems.- Multiscale Brittle-Ductile Coupling and Genesis of Slow Earthquakes.- Parallel Fault Systems with Evolving Self-similar Sliding Zones.- 3-D Simulation of Steady Plate Subduction with Tectonic Erosion: Current Crustal Uplift and Free-Air Gravity Anomaly in Northeast Japan.- Development of Long-period Ground Motions from the Nankai Trough, Japan, Earthquakes: Observations and Computer Simulation of the 1944 Tonankai (Mw 8.1) and the 2004 SE Off-Kii Peninsula (Mw 7.4) Earthquakes.- Modeling Wing Crack Extension: Implications for the Ingredients of Discrete Element Model.- Interactive Visualization to Advance Earthquake Simulation.- The QuakeSim Project: Web Services for Managing Geophysical Data and Applications.- A New Design of Scientific Software Using Python and XML.- An Efficient System for Creating Synthetic InSAR Images from Simulations.- The Stress Accumulation Method and the Pattern Informatics Index: Complementary Approaches to Earthquake Forecasting.- The Newest Developments of Load-Unload Response Ratio (LURR).- Earthquake Trend Around Sumatra Indicated by a New Implementation of LURR Method.- Comparison Between LURR and State Vector Analysis Before Strong Earthquakes in Southern California Since 1980.- Fast Computing for LURR of Earthquake Prediction.- Complexity in Sequences of Solar Flares and Earthquakes.- Earthquakes: Recurrence and Interoccurrence Times.