{"product_id":"9780875909783","title":"Geocomplexity and the Physics of Earthquakes","description":"\u003ch1\u003eGeocomplexity and the Physics of Earthquakes\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eRundle, John B.; Turcotte, Donald L.; Klein, William\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 120.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEarthquakes in urban centers are capable of causing enormous damage. The January 16, 1995 Kobe, Japan earthquake was only a magnitude 6.9 event and yet produced an estimated $200 billion loss. Despite an active earthquake prediction program in Japan, this event was a complete surprise. Similar scenarios are possible in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and other urban centers around the Pacific plate boundary. The development of forecast or prediction methodologies for these great damaging earthquakes has been complicated by the fact that the largest events repeat at irregular intervals of hundreds to thousands of years, resulting in a limited historical record that has frustrated phenomenological studies. The papers in this book describe an emerging alternative approach, which is based on a new understanding of earthquake physics arising from the construction and analysis of numerical simulations. With these numerical simulations, earthquake physics now can be investigated in numerical laboratories. Simulation data from numerical experiments can be used to develop theoretical understanding that can be subsequently applied to observed data. These methods have been enabled by the information technology revolution, in which fundamental advances in computing and communications are placing vast computational resources at our disposal.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: American Geophysical Union\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2000-01-10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9780875909783\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 274.3cm x223.5cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 284.0\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44399317778572,"sku":"9780875909783","price":66.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9780875909783_92a93a94-be4c-499b-81af-cca5d04c1590.jpg?v=1755452671","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9780875909783","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}