Hi! I assume you are here because you are super excited about learning how to generate synthetic earthquake data using FakeQuakes. FakeQuakes is the set of semistochastic forward modeling codes from https://github.com/dmelgarm/MudPy.

There are several different jupyter notebook's in this repository.
- FQ_walkthrough.ipynb is the main notebook you will want to look over. It explains some of the theory and goes through how to define parameters and run the FakeQuakes code using the Mentawai region as an example.
- ROSES_FakeQuakes_lab.ipynb is the lab notebook designed for the Remote Online Sessions for Emerging Seismologists (ROSES) 2021 workshop. It is meant to accompany the FQ_walkthrough.ipynb notebook and has a couple exercises to practice using FakeQuakes.
- unavco_fakequakes_tutorial.ipynb is a shorter tutorial/lab notebook designed for an UNAVCO audience, so it only focuses on generating low-frequency displacement waveforms.

The figures folder contains a few figures used in the design of the FQ_walkthrough.ipynb notebook.

The files folder contains the various files needed to run FakeQuakes.
- sm.gflist is a station file and contains only 2 strong motion stations to make computation time short for the demo
- mentawai.fault is a moderately-discretized fault model for the Mentawai region
- mentawai.mod is the velocity model for the Mentawai region

The demo folder is an example FakeQuakes project folder with output rupture models and waveforms that I generated. You can just use this project folder to follow along with the FQ_walkthrough jupyter notebook, or create your own.

Have fun creating some earthquakes!