References

The theory and algorithms comprising Blocks are described 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)

Others' codes used in Blocks are:

• boundedges.m (by Per-Olof Persson, from the DistMesh package)
• selectdata.m (by John D'Errico, from the Matlab File Exchange)
• bluewhitered.m (by Nathan Childress, from the Matlab File Exchange)