seistools

A collection of software useful for fault mechanics research

Overview

This is a collection of tools developed by Eric Daub in the course of doing fault mechanics research. It includes tools for the following tasks:

• Reading lab experiment data from Chris Marone's lab (the biax module)
• Dealing with earthquake catalogs (the catalog module)
• Computing Coulomb stresses (the coulomb module)
• Performing numerical integration (the integration module)
• Generating fractal fault profiles (the rough module
• Reading files from the SRCMOD database (the source module)
• Computing stress changes using the boundary integral method (the stress module)
• Modeling friction using Shear Transformation Zone (STZ) Theory (the stz module)

The code is provided with little documentation or verification, though there are a few unit tests of some of the functionality. These are provided in hopes that they might be useful to other researchers. If you find any bugs or other issues, please contact Eric Daub (edaub@turing.ac.uk).

Installation

Dependencies can be installed using the requirements.txt file:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

The code can be installed in the usual way by running setup.py in the shell:

$ python setup.py install

Tests

Running the unit tests requires pytest. You can run the tests from anywhere in the seistools directory by entering pytest in the shell. The tests for the coulomb module are currently broken.