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Rectangular Fault Geometry

Rectangular Fault Geometry

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  • Last Post 09 December 2019
Nikos Vavlas posted this 23 August 2019

Hello,

when inserting a rectangular fault in R-CRISIS, two vertices are needed as an input representing the the two edges of the upper fault's edge. After also inserting the fault's width and dip angle, R-CRISIS automatically calculates the coordinates and depth of the two bottom edges of the fault. My question is, can i know the formula which is used for this calculation? Specifically, knowing the cordinates and depth of the upper edges of the fault (Lat1, Lon1, Depth1), (Lat2, Lon2, Depth2), and also the fault's width and dip angle, how do i calculate (Lat3, Lon3, Depth3) and (Lat4, Lon4, Depth4) where 3 and 4 represent the botton fault edges?

Thank you very much.

Content_Manager posted this 09 December 2019

Dear Nikos,

The algorithm to calculate the coordinates of bottom fault's edge is not available for the public, but you can calculate them by applying analytical geometry.

 

Thank you for preference and interest in R-CRISIS.

 

Best regards,

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