A Python toolbox for kinematic earthquake ground motion modelling!

The current version is 0.0.1, which means totally not ready to be used by someone else, but if you want you can try and help me improving the library!

Bart Vleminckx @ Royal Observatory of Belgium (bart . vleminckx @ observatory . be)

I use Synthacc from source on Windows 10 (64-bit) with Python 3.6 in a Miniconda virtual environment. Install the dependencies from the conda-forge channel.

conda install -c conda-forge --file requirements.txt

So no dependency hell anymore thanks to conda! Only scikit-fmm has to be installed with pip.

pip install scikit-fmm

Clone the Synthacc repository and add its folder to the PYTHONPATH environment variable. Ready!

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