# Rectangular Area Source Model

## Class Name

• RRectangularAreaSourceModel

## Location in Objects Pane

• Models > Model > Hazard > Earthquake > Location > Recatangular Area Source

## Model Description

### Model Form

• This model produces a location within a rectangular area that is defined by two diagonal corner points.
• The sides of the area align with Earth’s latitudes and longitudes.
• For further information on this model, refer to Rahimi and Mahsuli (2019) and Mahsuli et al. (2019).

• Yes

## Properties

### Object Name

• Name of the object in Rt
• Allowable characters are upper-case and lower-case letters, numbers, and underscore (“_”).
• The name is unique and case-sensitive.

### Display Output

• Determines whether the model is allowed to print messages to the Output Pane.

### Point 1 Location

• Location object for one corner of the area

### Point 2 Location

• Location object for the diagonally opposite corner

### Theta 1

• $${\vartheta_1}$$ = Value between 0 and 1 that defines the output longitude, typically a random variable uniformly distributed between 0 and 1.

### Theta 2

• $${\vartheta_2}$$ = Value between 0 and 1 that defines the output latitude, typically a random variable uniformly distributed between 0 and 1.

### Depth

• Depth of the output location, in km

## Output

• Location object carried by a location response object.
• The output is an automatically generated generic response object, which takes the object name of the model plus “Response”.

### Remove

• Removes the object.

### Display On Map

• Displays the object on map.

### Remove From Map

• Removes the object from map.

## References

• Rahimi, H., Mahsuli, M. (2019) “Structural reliability approach to analysis of probabilistic seismic hazard and its sensitivities,” Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 17(3): 1331-1359 (DOI)
• Mahsuli, M., Rahimi, H., Bakhshi, A. (2019) “Probabilistic seismic hazard analysis of Iran using reliability methods,” Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 17(3): 1117-1143 (DOI)