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Fig 1: The SCEC Broadband Platform scientific software modules can be combined to implement earthquake simulations that produce ground motion time series.

The SCEC Broadband Platform is a software system which generates 0-100 Hz seismograms for historical and scenario earthquakes in California, Eastern North America, and Japan.

Overview

The goal of the SCEC Broadband Simulation Platform is to generate broadband (0-100 Hz) ground motions for earthquakes. The SCEC Broadband Platform is a collaborative software development project involving SCEC researchers, research engineers, graduate students, and the SCEC/CME software development group. SCEC scientific groups have contributed modules to the Broadband Platform including rupture generation, low- and high-frequency seismogram synthesis, non-linear site effects, and visualization. These complex scientific codes have been integrated into a system that supports easy on-demand computation of broadband seismograms. The SCEC Broadband Platform is designed to be used by both scientific and engineering researchers with some experience interpreting ground motion simulations.

Users may calculate broadband seismograms for both historical earthquakes (validation events including Northridge and Loma Prieta) and user-defined earthquakes. The platform produces a variety of data products, including broadband seismograms, rupture visualizations, and several goodness-of-fit plots. Users can install the platform on their own machine, verify that it is installed correctly, and run their own simulations on demand without requiring knowledge of any of the code involved. Users may run a validation event, supply their own simple source description, or provide a rupture description in SRF format. Users may specify their own list of stations or use a provided list. Currently the platform supports stations and events in Southern California, the Bay Area, the Mojave Desert, Eastern United States, Eastern Canada, Central and Western Japan. Users may select among various method that include rupture generation, low-frequency synthesis, high-frequency synthesis, and incorporation of site effects, with the option of running a goodness-of-fit comparison against observed or simulated seismograms. These codes have been validated against recorded ground motions from real events.

The Broadband Platform was implemented using software development best practices, including version control, user documentation, acceptance tests, and formal releases, with the aim of ease of installation and use.

Current Release

The current official release of Broadband Platform is v15.3.0. This is a new version of the platform that includes a large number of new capabilities. It is the first major release of the Broadband Platform since version 14.3.0, released in March 2014. Details of the new features along with several bugs fixes are provided in the release notes and the "changes" section below. New, and old Broadband platform users should work with this version of the software, and we recommend current Broadband platform users migrate to this new version whenever possible.

Dependencies

Broadband has the following dependencies:

• Python 2.6+ with
  • NumPy 1.4.1
  • Scipy 0.7.2
  • matplotlib 1.0.1
  • PyProj 1.8.9
• GNU compilers (gcc, gfortran) v4.5.1

Please refer to the Broadband User Guide v15.3.0 for more details about the specific versions required for each of the packages above. This version of the Broadband Platform does NOT require Intel compilers. If you are using the Broadband Platform Virtual Box Image we provide with this BBP release, all the above dependencies are installed inside the Virtual Box environment and do not need to be installed by the user.

Documentation Including Installation Instructions

Please see the BBP User Guide Wiki pages below information on how to install the Broadband Platform on your computer. The BBP Virtual Box Image guide offers information on how to set up Virtual Box on your computer and how to download, install and use the Broadband Platform Virtual Image. The File Format Guide includes information about the various files formats used and produced by the Broadband Platform.

• Broadband User Guide v15.3.0
• BBP 15.3.0 Virtual Box Image
• Broadband File Format Guide
• Broadband v15.3.0 Release Notes

Installation Overview

This section provides a brief overview of how the Broadband Platform can be installed on your local Linux or Mac OS X computer. There are additional, more detailed, installation instructions in the Broadband User Guide v15.3.0.

Briefly, BBP installation can be summarized in the following steps:

1. The software can be installed in an account on a Linux or Mac OS X computer with at least 10GB of disk storage and C, Fortran, and Python software installed.
2. From the Linux/Mac computer, start a web browser and point to this download page. Alternatively, you can download the files to a different machine and use FTP or SFTP to copy them over.
3. After downloading each file, run the md5sum program to confirm you have an undamaged version of the distribution files by comparing the md5sum provided in the .md5 files against the one calculated at the local computer.
4. Uncompress the distribution (tar.gz) files into the proper directory structure as described in the Broadband User Guide v15.3.0.
5. Build the executables by running the top level makefile.
6. Configure your environment by adding a few Broadband Platform variables to your shell's environment.
7. Confirm the code is built correctly by running UnitTests.
8. Confirm the code runs correctly on your system by running AcceptanceTests.
9. Use the platform for research purposes.

Current Broadband Platform Release Downloads

The current SCEC Broadband platform release is v15.3.0. Please refer to the BBP 15.3.0 Virtual Box Image guide for instructions on using the BBP Virtual Box Image available with this release. For installing the Broadband Platform on your computer, please continue reading this page.

To install and use the Broadband platform, you need the source code, one or more Green's Functions packages, and optionally one or more Validation packages. New versions of the Broadband Platform software contain cumulative improvements to the geoscientific codes and software infrastructure. We recommend use of the most recent version of the Broadband Platform, unless you are trying to reproduce results generated with an earlier version of the platform.

Users that are upgrading from previous version of the Broadband Platform will need to retrieve new versions of all the Broadband Platform packages as there have been significant changes in all the packages since the previous 14.3.0 release.

Required Files

The following packages are the minimum set of files required to run the Broadband Platform. This set includes files needed for running the Unit and Acceptance tests.

• Source Distribution (56MB): BBP 15.3.0, BBP 15.3.0.md5
• LA Basin Model (1.4GB): LA Basin, LA Basin.md5 (Needed for Unit and Acceptance Tests)
• Northridge Validation Event (17MB): Northridge, Northridge.md5 (Needed for Acceptance Tests)

Additional Regions/Velocity Models

The following packages are optional downloads. Users should download packages for the regions they are interested in.

• Mojave (1.7GB): Mojave, Mojave.md5
• Northern California (1.4GB): NoCal, NOCAL.md5
• Western Japan (1.8GB): Western Japan, Western Japan.md5
• Central Japan (1.8GB): Central Japan, Central Japan.md5
• Eastern Canada (3.3GB): Eastern Canada, Eastern Canada.md5
• Eastern United States (3.5GB): Eastern United States, Eastern United States.md5

GMPE Verification Pacakges

• GMPEs (3.2MB): GMPEs, GMPE.md5 (Requires both LA Basin and Northern California Regions)

Additional Validation Events

• Loma Prieta (14MB): Loma Prieta, Loma Prieta.md5 (Requires Northern California Region)

Please log into the private wiki to download additional validation events.

Supporting Materials

• Maechling BBP Overview (PDF, 1.2MB)
• Broadband Poster from SSA 2014 - Fabio Silva (PDF, 8.3MB)
• Broadband poster from AGU 2014 (PDF, 13.8MB)
• Broadband overview talk from SC10 (PPT, 3.7 MB)
• Technical diagrams of Broadband module relationships (PPTX, 16 KB)

Help

For assistance with the Broadband Platform, you may

• Email software @ scec.org with specific questions
• Browse and submit new trouble tickets, or feature requests, at Broadband Trac site. SCEC user login is required to submit trouble tickets this way.

License

SCEC Broadband Platform software distributions are released under an Apache 2.0 open-source license as described here Broadband License.

Broadband Platform Developers and Collaborators

• Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center
• San Diego State University Dept of Geological Sciences
• SCEC
• SCEC/CME Project
• ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
• University of California, Berkeley
• U.C. Santa Barbara Dept of Earth Sciences
• UCSB Institute for Crustal Studies
• University of Nevada Reno
• University of Western Ontario
• URS Corporation

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

We post BBP user questions and our response to a Broadband Platform Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page:

• BBP FAQ

Related Wiki Entries

• SCEC Wiki Main
• SCEC Home Page
• SWUS Project
• SCEC Software Downloads

Older Broadband Platform Releases

Earlier version of the broadband platform software and data distributions are provided to support existing Broadband platform users. However, we recommend all users upgrade to the most recent version at first opportunity. Earlier releases can be found in the Broadband Platform Previous Releases page.

Development version

If you're an advanced user, interested in working with the latest development version of the platform, you can check it out from

svn co https://source.usc.edu/svn/broadband/trunk

Details about working with the development version are provided in the User Guide. Changes implemented in the development version are available here Broadband Trunk Release Notes.

The next version of Broadband is expected to be released in Q4 of 2015.

References 2015

1. Anderson, J. G (2015) The Composite Source Model for Broadband Simulations of Strong Ground Motions, Seismological Research Letters, January/February 2015, v. 86, p. 68-74, doi:10.1785/0220140098
2. Atkinson, G. M., and Assatourians, K. (2015) Implementation and Validation of EXSIM (A Stochastic Finite‐Fault Ground‐Motion Simulation Algorithm) on the SCEC Broadband Platform, Seismological Research Letters, January/February 2015, v. 86, p. 48-60, doi:10.1785/0220140097
3. Crempien, J. G. F., and Archuleta, R. J. (2015) UCSB Method for Simulation of Broadband Ground Motion from Kinematic Earthquake Sources, Seismological Research Letters, January/February 2015, v. 86, p. 61-67, doi:10.1785/0220140103
4. Dreger, D. S., Beroza, G.C., Day, S. M., Goulet, C. A., Jordan, T. H., Spudich, P. A., and Stewart, J. P. (2015). Validation of the SCEC Broadband Platform V14.3 Simulation Methods Using Pseudospectral Acceleration Data, Seismological Research Letters, January/February 2015, v. 86, p. 39-47, doi:10.1785/0220140118
5. Dreger, D. S., and Jordan, T. H. (2015) Introduction to the Focus Section on Validation of the SCEC Broadband Platform V14.3 Simulation Methods Seismological Research Letters, January/February 2015, v. 86, p. 15-16, doi:10.1785/0220140233
6. Goulet, C.A., Abrahamson, N.A., Somerville, P.G. and K, E. Wooddell (2015) The SCEC Broadband Platform Validation Exercise: Methodology for Code Validation in the Context of Seismic-Hazard Analyses, Seismological Research Letters, January/February 2015, v. 86, doi: 10.1785/0220140104
7. Graves, R., and Pitarka, A. (2015) Refinements to the Graves and Pitarka (2010) Broadband Ground‐Motion Simulation Method Seismological Research Letters, January/February 2015, v. 86, p. 75-80, doi:10.1785/0220140101
8. Maechling, P. J., F. Silva, S. Callaghan, and T. H. Jordan (2015). SCEC Broadband Platform: System Architecture and Software Implementation, Seismological Research Letters, January/February 2015, v. 86, p. 27-38, doi: 10.1785/0220140125
9. Olsen, K. B., Takedatsu, R., (2015) The SDSU Broadband Ground‐Motion Generation Module BBtoolbox Version 1.5 Seismological Research Letters, January/February 2015, v. 86, p. 81-88, doi:10.1785/0220140102

Earlier Publications

1. Graves, R. W. and A. Pitarka (2010). “Broadband Ground-Motion Simulation Using a Hybrid Approach.” Bull. Seis. Soc. Am., 100(5A), pp. 2095-2123, doi: 10.1785/0120100057. link
2. Mai, P.M., W. Imperatori, and K.B. Olsen (2010). “Hybrid broadband ground motion simulations: combining long-period deterministic synthetics with high frequency multiple S-to-S back-scattering.” Bull. Seis. Soc. Am., 100(5A), pp. 2124-2142, doi: 10.1785/0120080194. link
3. Olsen, K. B., and Takedatsu, R. (2015) The SDSU Broadband Ground‐Motion Generation Module BBtoolbox Version 1.5 Seismological Research Letters, January/February 2015, v. 86, p. 81-88, First published on December 17, 2014, doi:10.1785/0220140102
4. Schmedes, J., R. J. Archuleta, and D. Lavallée (2010). “Correlation of earthquake source parameters inferred from dynamic rupture simulations.” J. Geophys. Res., 115, B03304, doi:10.1029/2009JB006689. link