OpenQuake Hazardlib 0.24.0

[Michele Simionato (@micheles)]

• Added a ruptureCollection parser able to instantiate EBRuptures
  suitable for event based calculations
• Used rtree in geo.utils.GeographicObjects to get the closest point
• Fixed a numeric issue in the square root of negative small numbers that
  actually should have been zero
• Removed the parallel.Computer base class
• Introduced a "grp_probability" attribute to SourceGroups, for use in
  the Japan mutex model
• Added an utility method ProbabilityMap.convert2 to convert a probability
  map into a two-dimensional array of curves

[Abhineet Gupta, Anirudh Rao (@raoanirudh)]

• Implemented the Shahjouei & Pezeshk (2016) GMPE

[Michele Simionato (@micheles)]

• Merged the Hazard Modeller Toolkit inside oq-hazardlib
• Experimental support for the Grid Engine
• Fixed the serialization to HDF5 of nonparametric ruptures

[Paolo Tormene (@ptormene)]

• Fixed clockwise order of vertices of surface boundaries, as needed for
  WKT MULTIPOLYGON strings while exporting ruptures

[Michele Simionato (@micheles)]

• Added input checks to the GmfComputer
• Fixed bug when splitting area sources into point sources for
  YoungsCoppersmith1985MFD
• Added a method hdf5.File.save to save node dictionaries in HDF5 format
• Increased IMPERFECT_RECTANGLE_TOLERANCE to 0.002
• Moved in hazardlib the tests for the sourcewriter (from the engine)
• Enabled rtree filtering only if the site collection is at sea level
• Added a parallel.Computer base class
• Changed the default distance from filtering from Rjb to Rrup
• Saved data transfer information automatically in parallel.Starmap

OpenQuake Hazardlib 0.23.0

[Graeme Weatherill (@g-weatherill)]

• Implemented modification of selected GMPEs for use in Armenia

[Michele Simionato (@micheles)]

• Monitored the calculation time for the PoEs for each GSIM
• Introduced a magnitude-dependent integration distance

[Robin Gee (@rcgee), Michele Simionato (@micheles)]

• Implemented support for sites above the level of the sea

[Michele Simionato (@micheles)]

• Made the parallelization library more robust against unexpected exceptions
• Used always the same algorithm for computing quantiles (before there
  was a special case in absence of weights)
• Extended calc_hazard_curves to manage mutex sources and ruptures and
  removed calc_hazard_curves_ext

[Graeme Weatherill (@g-weatherill)]

• Added new version of Pezeshk et al. (2011) GMPE adjusted for NEHRP BC Site
  condition

[Michele Simionato (@micheles)]

• Parallelized calc_hazard_curves_ext and added an example of use
  in the docstring of openquake.hazardlib.calc.hazard_curves
• Added NRML support for GriddedSurface and GriddedRupture objects
• Removed the warning about missing rtree

OpenQuake Hazardlib 0.22.0

[Marco Pagani (@mmpagani), Meya Yanger Walling]

• Implements the Megawati et al. (2003) GMPE for Singapore
• Fixed the sourcewriter in the case of NRML 0.5 sources with weights

[Michele Simionato (@micheles)]

• Improved the error message for XML files which are not NRML
• Added a test making sure that every GSIM is listed in the API documentation
• Added a logscale(x_min, x_max, n) function in valid.py
• Updated the documentation of the API
• Moved the NRML-related functionality from the engine into hazardlib
  in order to have an engine-independent Hazard Modeler Toolkit

[Daniele Viganò (@daniviga)]

• Add dependencies to setup.py
• Update Copyright to 2017

[Michele Simionato (@micheles)]

• Moved node.py from the engine inside baselib; stored the surface nodes
  inside the Surface classes
• Added more functions to compute mean and quantiles
• Cached the correlation matrix for speed

[Marco Pagani (@mmpagani), Michele Simionato (@micheles)]

• Extended the hazard curve calculator to manage mutually exclusive probabilities

[Michele Simionato (@micheles)]

• Made calc_hazard_curves parallelizable
• Moved the parallelization library of the engine into baselib
• Fixed a Python 3 issue in git_suffix
• Added support for AccumDict of accumulators
• Made the RtreeFilter pickleable
• Made the FilteredSiteCollections serializable to HDF5

[Daniele Viganò (@daniviga)]

• MANIFEST now includes all files, with any extension located in the
  tests folders. It is now possible to run tests from an installation
  made with packages

[Ozkan Kale, Graeme Weatherill (@g-weatherill)]

• Implements the Kale et al. (2015) GMPE for Turkey and Iran

[Michele Simionato (@micheles)]

• Fixed a 32 bit issue when the FilteredSiteCollection

[Marco Pagani (@mmpagani)]

• Add the azimuth 'distance' parameter

[Graeme Weatherill (@g-weatherill)]

• Modifies the Ry0 calculator for the planar rupture to avoid
  creating the Mesh

[Michele Simionato (@micheles)]

• Removed the rupture_site_filter from the calculators
• Removed the speedups and optimized the distance calculations at the
  numpy level

OpenQuake Hazardlib 0.21.1

[Michele Simionato (@micheles)]

• Fixed a 32 bit issue when the FilteredSiteCollection

OpenQuake Hazardlib 0.21.0

[Trevor Allen (@treviallen)/Graeme Weatherill (@g-weatherill)]

• Adds Geological Survey of Canada magnitude scaling relations for offshore thrust earthquakes
• Add site adjusted version of Zhao et al. (2006) for application in Cascadia

[Jonathan Griffin (@griffij)/Graeme Weatherill (@g-weatherill)]

• Adds Leonard (2014) magnitude-area scaling relation
• Cleanup of scaling relation test code, removes fragile tests of the get_available_scalerel function

[Michele Simionato (@micheles)]

• Extended the RtreeFilter to work on all sources; removed the Tile class
• Introduced an optional RtreeFilter for fast filtering of the sites by
  point sources, based on the source bounding box

[Graeme Weatherill (@g-weatherill)]

• Adds/Modifies Ry0 and Rx calculator for multi-surface typology using the Generalized Coordinate System (GC2)
• Implements the European GMPE of Kotha et al. (2016), the SaRotD100 GMPE of Hong & Goda (2007) and the Arias Intensity GMPE of Trvasarou et al. (2003)

[Michele Simionato (@micheles)]

• The SourceSitesFilter is now used by default in pmap_from_grp
• Added a simple argument parser in baselib
• Replaced pydoc.locate with a call to importlib to work around a QGIS issue
• Fixed the encode/decode functions in baselib.python3compat

[Daniele Viganò (@daniviga)]

• Added Python 3 compatibility to speedups

[Trevor Allen (@treviallen)/Graeme Weatherill (@g-weatherill)]

• Adds Queen Charlotte strike slip magnitude scaling relation (WC1994_QCSS)

OpenQuake Hazardlib 0.20.0

[Michele Simionato (@micheles)]

• Fixed the serialization on HDF5 of dictionaries with keys containing slashes
• Renamed Imtls -> DictArray
• Removed the .id attribute from the Site class

[Graeme Weatherill (@g-weatherill)]

• Updates coefficients to Montalva et al. GMPE and updates year to 2016

[Michele Simionato (@micheles)]

• Added a Tile class to filter efficiently point sources
• Removed the function hazard_curve.hazard_curves that has been
  deprecated from November 2014
• Fixed the string representation of GSIM instances: this solves a serious
  bug in the GMPETable
• Removed the rupture_site_filter where it was not used

[Daniele Viganò (@daniviga)]

• Added support for Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) packages

[Michele Simionato (@micheles)]

• Major change to the GmfCalculator API

[Matteo Nastasi (@nastasi-oq)]

• Backport of libhdf5 and h5py for ubuntu 'precise' serie

[Michele Simionato (@micheles)]

• Added a PickleableSequence class to serialize Python objects on HDF5

[Graeme Weatherill (@g-weatherill)]

• Fixes Z1.0 units bug in Abrahamson, Silva and Kamai (2014)
• Added modifications to Zhao (2006) inslab GMPE and implements
  Atkinson (2008') - needed for 2014 US NSHMP

[Michele Simionato (@micheles)]

• Improved the validity check on the Intensity Measure Type
• Showing the calc_id in Monitor instances string representation
• Added a h5py.File subclass to manage the serialization of objects
  satisfying the HDF5 protocol used by the OpenQuake software
• Added a LiteralAttrs class to serialize literal attributes on HDF5
• Added to the Monitor the ability to send commands

OpenQuake Hazardlib 0.19.0

[Nick Ackerley (@nackerley)]

• Added Japan regionalization to GMPE of Atkinson & Boore (2003).

[Michele Simionato (@micheles)]

• Using 32 bit floats for the GMFs, instead of 64, to save memory.

OpenQuake Hazardlib 0.18.0

[Daniele Viganò (@daniviga), Matteo Nastasi (@nastasi-oq)]

• Updates Copyrights to 2016 and uniformize them

[Michele Simionato (@micheles)]

• SiteCollection instances are now serializable in HDF5 format

[Graeme Weatherill (@g-weatherill)]

• Adds `arbitrary' magnitude frequency distribution
• Adds version of NSHMP Western US (NGA West) GMPEs to calculated the
  weighted mean of the epistemic uncertainty adjustment factor

[Nick Ackerley (@nackerley)]

• Implemented GMPE of Kanno et al. (2006) for shallow and deep earthquakes.
• Implemented GMPE of Raghukanth & Iyengar (2007) for stable continental
  regions of peninsular India.
• Implemented GMPE of Nath (2012) for anomalous interface subduction in the
  intraplate margin of the Shillong plateau in India.
• Implemented GMPE of Gupta (2010) for Indo-Burmese intraslab subduction.
• Implemented GMPE of Sharma et al. (2009) for active shallow crust of
  Indian Himalayas.
• Give more feedback in error messages on validation.

[Michele Simionato (@micheles)]

• Added a .weight property to sources, as well as a .num_ruptures attribute
• The GMPETable now understands paths relative to a directory GMPE_DIR

[Graeme Weatherill (@g-weatherill)]

• Implements Drouet (2015) GMPE for Brazil
• Revises Montalva et al. (2015) GMPE (on author's advice)

[Silvia Canessa (@silviacanessa)]

• Adds Dowrick and Rhoades 2005 GMPE

[Michele Simionato (@micheles)]

• Fixed the equality check for SiteCollections: now all of the parameters
  are compared, not only lons and lats.

[Yen-Shin Chen (@vup1120)]

• Modified the hypocentre_patch_index method to obtain the best solution

OpenQuake Hazardlib 0.17.0

[Michele Simionato (@micheles)]

• Avoided doing the rupture filtering twice
• Optimized the case of multiple GSIMs by instantiating the
  ruptures/sites/distances contexts only once

OpenQuake Hazardlib 0.16.0

[Graeme Weatherill (@g-weatherill)]

• Adds methods for modifying the geometry configurations of the fault sources

[Michele Simionato (@micheles)]

• Refactored atkinson_boore_2003 classes to avoid unneeded instantiation

[Matteo Nastasi (@nastasi-oq)]

• Imposed version for python-h5py dependency, Ubuntu 12.04 will use
  backported version from GEM repository

[Graeme Weatherill (@g-weatherill)]

• Adds Montalva et al. (2015) GMPE

[Robin Gee (@rcgee)]

• Adds Tusa and Langer (2015) GMPE