RFOC (version 3.2)

MomentDist: Distance Between Moment Tensors

Description

Calculate the distance between moment tensors based on quaternions.

Usage

MomentDist(E1, E2)

Arguments

E1

Moment tensor

E2

Moment tensor

Value

• angle in degrees

Details

Moment tensors should be right handed.

References

Tape and Tape, 2012

See Also

forcerighthand, testrightHAND

Examples

Mtens = c(-0.412, 0.084, 0.328 ,0.398, -1.239, 1.058)
M1 = matrix(c(Mtens[1], Mtens[4], Mtens[5], Mtens[4], Mtens[2], Mtens[6], Mtens[5],Mtens[6], Mtens[3]), ncol=3, nrow=3, byrow=TRUE)



Mtens = c(5.054, -2.235, -2.819, -0.476, 5.420, 5.594)
M2 = matrix(c(Mtens[1], Mtens[4], Mtens[5], Mtens[4], Mtens[2], Mtens[6], Mtens[5],Mtens[6], Mtens[3]), ncol=3, nrow=3, byrow=TRUE)

E1 = eigen(M1)

###  make sure these are a right handed system,
###   ie x1 cross x2 = x3


E2 = eigen(M2)

###  make sure these are a right handed system,
###   ie x1 cross x2 = x3
testrightHAND(E1$vectors) 
testrightHAND(E2$vectors) 

E1$vectors = forcerighthand(E1$vectors)

E2$vectors = forcerighthand(E2$vectors)


testrightHAND(E1$vectors) 
testrightHAND(E2$vectors) 

MomentDist(E1, E2)