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An example with the 2015 M7.8 Nepal earthquake

Diego Melgar edited this page Mar 14, 2017 · 24 revisions

Here I will walk you step by step through running the Nepal earthquake. This is one of the pre-canned examples which you can find in the MUD/examples folder. Note this is using only the high-rate GPS stations. If you want to reproduce the full results that we calculated in the Galetzka et al., 2015 paper in Science, that's more complicated because there we used InSAR. That's for another time. The model you will obtain here is different (this is inversion after all!) from the one in the paper but this is a useful end-to-end exercise.

Step 1: Create a folder to save your parameter files in and copy the example parameter file