HR: 08:00h
AN: S31D-01    [Abstracts]
TI: Design, Implementation, and Status of the CSEP Testing Center at SCEC
AU: Liukis, M
EM: liukis@usc.edu
AF: Southern California Earthquake Center, 3651 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States
AU: Schorlemmer, D
EM: ds@usc.edu
AF: Southern California Earthquake Center, 3651 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States
AU: * Maechling, P J
EM: maechlin@usc.edu
AF: Southern California Earthquake Center, 3651 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States
AU: Jordan, T H
EM: tjordan@usc.edu
AF: Southern California Earthquake Center, 3651 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States
AU: Euchner, F
EM: fabian@sed.ethz.ch
AF: ETH Zurich, Raemistrasse 101, Zurich, 8092, Switzerland
AU: Yu, J
EM: johnyu@usc.edu
AF: Southern California Earthquake Center, 3651 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States
AU: Zechar, J
EM: zechar@usc.edu
AF: Southern California Earthquake Center, 3651 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States
AU: Working Group, C
EM: maechlin@usc.edu
AF: Southern California Earthquake Center, 3651 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States
AB: SCEC began development of the Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability (CSEP) in January of 2006 with funding provided by the W. M. Keck Foundation. Since that time, a large group of scientists and software engineers have translated the concepts of CSEP into an operational testing center. The initial implementation of the W. M. Keck Foundation Testing Center at SCEC for the California natural laboratory became operational on September 1, 2007. The design and implementation of the SCEC Testing Center have been guided by four design goals that were originally identified as objectives for the RELM testing center which are: (1) Controlled Environment, (2) Transparency, (3) Comparability, and (4) Reproducibility. By meeting these goals, the CSEP Testing Center can provide clear descriptions of how all registered earthquake forecasts are produced and how each of the forecasts are evaluated. In this presentation, we describe how the currently operational CSEP Testing Center at SCEC has been constructed to meet these design goals and we describe the status of the Testing Center and our experiences operating the center since its inception.
UR: http://www.scec.org/csep
DE: 7223 Earthquake interaction, forecasting, and prediction (1217, 1242)
DE: 7260 Theory
DE: 7290 Computational seismology
DE: 7294 Seismic instruments and networks (0935, 3025)
DE: 7299 General or miscellaneous
SC: Seismology [S]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting