This script computates the static co-seismic displacements due to a dislocation-type deformation in a half-space
Description: This exact solution is often used to construct co-seismic displacements due to an underwater earthquake. These displacements are then used to construct in some way an initial condition for tsunami propagation codes.
For more details, please, have a look at the original Okada paper:
- Y. Okada. Surface deformation due to shear and tensile faults in a half-space. Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 75, 1135-1154, 1985
Or to my freely available preprint:
- D. Dutykh, F. Dias, Water waves generated by a moving bottom. In Book:"Tsunami and Nonlinear Waves", Kundu, A. (Editor), Springer Verlag 2007
More sophisticated approaches to the tsunami generation problem can be found in other publications of the author.
Please, note that this script can be also downloaded from the Matlab Central server.
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D. Dutykh
www.denys-dutykh.com
Open source under the MIT licence.