What is celeri?

celeri is Python software for analyzing crustal deformation at active plate boundary zones, using geodetic velocities and geologic fault slip rates. celeri simultaneously estimates microplate rotations and elastic earthquake cycle effects based on nominally interseismic geodetic velocities. A full description of the theory behind celeri can be found in:

• Meade, B.J. and J.P. Loveless (2009), Block modeling with multiple fault network geometries and a linear elastic coupling estimator in spherical coordinates, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 99(6), 3124–3139, doi:10.1785/0120090088.

Additional methodology is described in:

• Loveless, J.P. and B.J. Meade (2011), Spatial correlation of interseismic coupling and coseismic rupture extent of the 2011 MW=9.0 Tohoku-oki earthquake, Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L17306, doi:10.1029/2011GL048561.

  (Description of spatially variable smoothing operator based on resolving capacity of constraining data)

• Evans, E.L., J.P. Loveless, and B.J. Meade (2012), Geodetic constraints on San Francisco Bay Area fault slip rates and potential seismogenic asperities on the partially creeping Hayward fault, Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, B03410, doi:10.1029/2011JB008398.

  (Description of using InSAR line-of-sight velocities as constraints)