SeisSol is a scientific software for the numerical simulation of seismic wave phenomena and earthquake dynamics. It is based on the discontinuous Galerkin method combined with ADER time discretization. Visit our official website and also read our documentation in order to learn more about SeisSol. Our discussion forum can help you to communicate with SeisSol developers or other users, share your ideas, ask questions, etc.

SeisSol is still under heavy development and comes without any guaranteed functionality. At the moment we can only provide very limited support for general users.

If you utilize SeisSol in a publication or want to refer to it, please follow the suggestions on our How To Cite page. It also includes examples how to cite specific SeisSol features, models or previous use cases.

To reference SeisSol as a software package and the specific version you used, please provide the link doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4672483 which points to Zenodo.

If you are interested in a close collaboration, please contact Alice Gabriel.

We follow a Code of Conduct. Please follow the rules when participating in our community.

You are very welcome to contribute new features, extensions or bug fixes to SeisSol. Before starting, it is best to discuss your planned feature with us; e.g. by opening a new issue for it.

To learn more about contributing to SeisSol, please read our Contribution page.

The source code of SeisSol is licensed under the BSD-3-Clause license. Some files in the cmake and external folders may have different licenses (BSL-1.0, MIT, BSD-2-Clause).

See the LICENSE file for more details.