Starting with the importance and
necessity of inversion study of source rupture process and a brief review of
its history, this paper expounds several main methods of inversion study, analyzes
their respective strengths and weakness and discusses the their prospect, and
finally concludes that the joint inversion study based on seismic wave data and
various other data, in particular the geodesic survey data(InSAR and GPS), would be the future
trend of the inversion study of source rupture process.