Rapid estimation of selected Global
Large Earthquakes (Mw>7)
and interesting local events
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The Sumatran Plate
Boundary Project is a multi disciplinary effort
to understand tectonic processes at a plate boundary dominated
by the oblique convergence of oceanic and continental plates.
The MesoAmerican
Subduction Experiment, MASE intends to
construct a dynamical (numerical) model of the subduction
process that matches the variety of subduction scenarios
present in the Central America subduction zone.
The Andean Subduction
Zone Project is a collaborative project that
focuses on the dynamics of the South American subduction
zone, a region that spans the source area of a high percentage
of the world's largest earthquakes and tsunamis, hundreds
of active volcanoes, and the presently rising Andean mountain
range.
The Tawain Tectonics
and Seismicity Project uses this exceptional
area to investigate mountain building processes over
time scales ranging from the seconds of an earthquake
to millions of years of an orogeny. It is also an ultimate
place to investigate both the transition from subduction
to collision and from collision to collapse.
The Indo-Asian
Collision Zone is an appropriate case study
to address the question of a need for some simple models
relating crustal deformation and seismicity that would
provide some physical basis to help assess the frequency
and size of major earthquakes.
