A Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Simulating 3D Seismic Wave Propagation in Nonlinear Rock Models: Verification and Application to the 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha Earthquake

Zihua Niu, Alice-Agnes Gabriel, Sebastian Wolf +3

The nonlinear mechanical responses of rocks and soils to seismic waves play an important role in earthquake physics, influencing ground motion from source to site. Continuous geoph…