Earthquake Module Structure

The description of this module presented in this Page. In the following some details about the parameters and methods of this module has been presented.

Parameters

• All local parameters of this module are data parameters and filled with arguments and no need to be reset at the beginning of each analysis, so they are not defined in the wipeAnalysis.

• The SampledMagnitude parameter is a global parameter that described in _GlobalParameters of parent subpackage and it is located int the wipeAnalysisGlobal so, there is no need to initialize it again in the body of this module.

Methods

• SampleRandomMagnitude is a global method that described in the _GlobalParameters of parent subpackage. In the current module this method filled with an algorithm that calculate and returns the SampledMagnitude parameter according defined hazard data using local parameters. The following hypothesists are considered in this method:

  • If there were no rnd or if the value entered as rnd be a number smaller than 0 or greater that 1 then a random number will be consider automatically between 0 and 1.

  • If the entered value as rnd be less than the defined probabilities for hazard curve, then the maximum defined magnitude will be return as the result of the method.

  • If the entered value as rnd be greater than the defined probabilities for hazard curve, then 0 value be return as the result of the method.