UCERF3 Time Dependent Rate Calculator

This is a command line utility for extracting time dependent probabilities and equivalent annualized rates from a UCERF3 Fault System Solution. You must have the Java Runtime Environment version 6 or greater installed on your machine and in your system path.

For more information on the UCERF3 Time Dependent model, see the Main Report (2015, BSSA) and Electronic Supplements.

NOTE: This is only applicable to UCERF3 single branch or branch averaged solutions. It is not applicable to any “true mean” solutions that include alternative geometries for the same faults. Older versions of the branch averaged solutions files do not contain the necessary date of last event data built in and replacements should be downloaded from here. An error message will be displayed and the program will exit if one of these older files is used.

WARNING: This is provided as a service and is not exhaustively tested. No warranty is expressed or implied and by downloading this software you agree to the OpenSHA license/disclaimer.

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Command Line Arguments

Short	Long	Required?	Description
-d	–duration	yes	Forecast duration in years.
-y	–start-year	no	Forecast start year. Default: 2014
-h	–hist-open-interval-basis	no	Year basis for historical openinterval. Default: 1875
-p	–prob-model	yes	Probability model. One or more of U3_PREF_BLEND,POISSON,BPT_LOW,BPT_MID,BPT_HIGH. Multiple entries can be comma separated.
-s	–solution	yes	Input Fault System Solution zip file
-o	–output-file	yes	Output file name
-b	–binary	no	Output equivalent annualized rates binary file in FSS rates.bin format. Otherwise CSV format.
-a	–filter-aftershocks	no	Apply aftershock filter
-i	–ignore-no-date-last	no	Skips check that ensures date of last event data is set on at least some fault sections. Can be used to calculate time dependent probabilities using only the historical open interval.

Examples

To create a CSV file with probabilities and equivalent annualized rates for for each probability model and a 5 year duration:

java -jar ProbDist-1.2.3-10437-2013_11_16.jar --duration 5 --start-year 2014 --solution /path/to/sol.zip --hist-open-interval-basis 1875 --prob-model  U3_PREF_BLEND,POISSON,BPT_LOW,BPT_MID,BPT_HIGH --output-file /path/to/output.csv

If you see any error messages that mention java heap space such as an “OutOfMemoryError?” then re-run the command with the -XmxG option directly after "java" above, replacing with the amount of memory in gigabytes that is needed. "-Xmx4G" should be more than adequate if you run into problems.

Output

The default output is in CSV format. A truncated example is shown below:

FSS Index	FSS Rate (1/yr)	U3_PREF_BLEND 5yr Prob	U3_PREF_BLEND Equiv Annual Rate (1/yr)	POISSON 5yr Prob	POISSON Equiv Annual Rate (1/yr)
0	3.467132332031594E-5	1.793458612422435E-4	3.58723891268711E-5	1.7334159121162873E-4	3.4671323320325144E-5
1	1.581459767253252E-5	8.183057338995742E-5	1.6366784338797184E-5	7.906986217631751E-5	1.581459767253246E-5
2	1.1240237590986677E-5	5.818032401879599E-5	1.1636403311906143E-5	5.619960869773788E-5	1.1240237590983228E-5

Alternatively, if the “–binary” flag is supplied, the only equivalent annualized rates will be output in the Double Array Binary File Format. If multiple probability models are supplied, individual files will be output with the probability model name appended.