Relationship between strong-motion array parameters and the accuracy of source inversion and physical waves

We develop general rules for a strong-motion array layout on the basis of our method of applying a prediction analysis to a source inversion scheme. A systematic analysis is done to obtain a relationship between fault-array parameters and the accuracy of a source inversion. An overdetermined least-squares inversion scheme is used, where the spatial resolution is predetermined by the subfault size and the model variance is used as the accuracy of the source inversion. The accuracy of source inversion is efficiently estimated by using Wolberg's prediction analysis.