HR: 0800h
AN: SF41A-0750    [Abstracts]
TI: QuakeTables: The Fault Database for QuakeSim
AU: * Grant, L B
EM: lgrant@uci.edu
AF: University of California, Dept. Environmental Health, Science, and Policy, Irvine, CA 92697-7070 United States
AU: Donnellan, A
EM: donnellan@jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mail Stop 183-335 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109-8099 United States
AU: McLeod, D
EM: mcleod@usc.edu
AF: University of Southern California, Computer Science Department, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0781 United States
AU: Pierce, M
EM: marpierc@indiana.edu
AF: Indiana University, Community Grid Computing Lab 501 N. Morton, Suite 224, Bloomington, IN 47404-3730 United States
AU: Chen, A Y
EM: yunanche@usc.edu
AF: University of Southern California, Computer Science Department, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0781 United States
AU: Gould, M
EM: miryha@uci.edu
AF: University of California, Dept. Environmental Health, Science, and Policy, Irvine, CA 92697-7070 United States
AU: Noriega-Carlos, G
EM: gnoriega@uci.edu
AF: University of California, Dept. Environmental Health, Science, and Policy, Irvine, CA 92697-7070 United States
AU: Paul, R
EM: prundle@cse.ucdavis.edu
AF: University of California, Center for Computational Science and Engineering, Davis, CA 95616 United States
AU: Sung, S
EM: sangsung@usc.edu
AF: University of Southern California, Computer Science Department, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0781 United States
AU: Ta, M V
EM: mvta@uci.edu
AF: University of California, Dept. Environmental Health, Science, and Policy, Irvine, CA 92697-7070 United States
AB: The QuakeSim project will provide the first web-services based, interoperable environment for doing large-scale forward models for earthquake processes. Through a web-services based portal, QuakeSim provides global access to geologic reference models of faults and fault data, simple analysis tools, new parallel forward models, and visualization support. The database system for this project must manage a variety of types of earthquake science data and information, including real and simulated data, and pre-existing structured collections containing "validated" data from official sources such as U.S. and California Geological Surveys, and "non-validated" data sets such as Virtual California. The fault database component of QuakeSim is called QuakeTables. QuakeTables was developed using a basic public domain database management system (DBMS), MySQL, to be ported to a more fully functional relational DBMS. These systems support the definition, storage, access, and control of collections of structured data. To provide for the access and manipulation of heterogeneous data sources, the integration of information from such sources, and the structural organization and data mining of this data, QuakeTables employs techniques for wrapper-based information fusion to support data source access and integration. QuakeTables is searchable with annotated fault records from original sources. The QuakeSim team designed the fields that constitute the database records and provided a web-based interface that enables the submitting and accessing of those records. The fields include primary geologic and paleoseismic fault parameters (fault location/geometry, slip rate at measured location, measurements of co-seismic displacement, dates and locations of previous ruptures) as well as non-primary fault parameters such as names, segments and characteristic recurrence interval.
DE: 9810 New fields (not classifiable under other headings)
DE: 8100 TECTONOPHYSICS
DE: 7200 SEISMOLOGY
SC: Special Focus: Advances in Data Acquisition, Management, Analysis and Display [SF]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting