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SCEC's CVM evaluation system is designed to show differences between currently available California CVM's. Our CVM evaluations use wave propagation simulations of moderate magnitude historical earthquakes.
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SCEC's CVM evaluation system is designed to show differences between currently available California CVM's. Our CVM evaluations use wave propagation simulations of moderate magnitude historical earthquakes and goodness-of-fit measurements that compare simulation waveforms (or amplitudes) to observational data.
  
When a CVM is registered with the CVM evaluation system, three things happen:
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CVM evaluations involves the following:
#A software distribution of the CVM is posted online so that it is accessible to the SCEC Community
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#CVM evaluations are run prior to release of new version of CVM-H, or other SCEC CVM's. Multiple CVM's are evaluated at one time, so that performance of a new CVM can be compared to existing, or prior, CVM versions.
#The CVM is used so construct a velocity mesh for a 1Hz Chino Hills simulation. In the future, additional validation events may be used.
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#A software distribution each CVM is posted online so that it is accessible to the SCEC Community
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#Each CVM is used to construct a velocity mesh for a 1Hz Chino Hills simulation. In the future, additional validation events may be used.
 
#The system runs a 1Hz wave propagation simulation and compares simulation results to observed seismograms for the event
 
#The system runs a 1Hz wave propagation simulation and compares simulation results to observed seismograms for the event
#Evaluation results, including velocity profile plots, and waveform-based goodness of fit measures are posted for all registered CVM's.
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#CVM Evaluation results, including velocity profiles, and waveform-based goodness of fit measures, are posted online for review.
  
 
== Recent CVM Evaluations ==
 
== Recent CVM Evaluations ==

Revision as of 00:41, 24 February 2011

SCEC's CVM evaluation system is designed to show differences between currently available California CVM's. Our CVM evaluations use wave propagation simulations of moderate magnitude historical earthquakes and goodness-of-fit measurements that compare simulation waveforms (or amplitudes) to observational data.

CVM evaluations involves the following:

  1. CVM evaluations are run prior to release of new version of CVM-H, or other SCEC CVM's. Multiple CVM's are evaluated at one time, so that performance of a new CVM can be compared to existing, or prior, CVM versions.
  2. A software distribution each CVM is posted online so that it is accessible to the SCEC Community
  3. Each CVM is used to construct a velocity mesh for a 1Hz Chino Hills simulation. In the future, additional validation events may be used.
  4. The system runs a 1Hz wave propagation simulation and compares simulation results to observed seismograms for the event
  5. CVM Evaluation results, including velocity profiles, and waveform-based goodness of fit measures, are posted online for review.

Recent CVM Evaluations

CVM evaluations are typically run when new CVM's are released. In Feb, 2011, we released CVM-H v11.2. At this time, we ran CVM evaluations for three different SCEC CVM's including:

  1. CVM-H
  2. CVM-H v6.3capi
  3. CVM-S

Evaluation results for CVM-H v11.2 and other SCEC CVM's are posted here:

Example Goodness of Fit Measures

Our CVM Evaluation system uses several goodness of fit measures. As one example, here are frequency dependent, amplitude-based, bias plots used in the CVM evaluation process.

Fig 1: Chino Hills 1Hz GOF with CVM-4.
Fig 2: Chino Hills 1Hz GOF with CVM-6.2
Fig 3: Chino Hills 1Hz GOF with CVM6.2+GTL

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