SCEC Media

This page contains a collection of media describing SCEC research.

Earthquake Simulation Animations

• RSQSim animation of 240K Year of California Seismicity (53.3Mb)
  • Animation showing earthquake sequence over 200K years in California based on RSQSim simulations

• Comparison of ShakeOut simulation with and without non-linear response (16Mb)
  • Side by side comparision of ShakeOut Earthquake simulations comparing results modeling linear ground motion response and non-linear response.

• Vector Visualization Technique showing velocity vectors for M8 Rupture (80.3Mb)
  • SDSC visualization technique to show 3 component ground motion vectors generated by M8.0 earthquake

• M8 Kinematic versus Dynamic Rupture (6.3Mb)
  • Side by side comparision of kinematic rupture and dynamic rupture slip for M8.0 earthquake

• M8 Wave Field Animation (240Mb)
  • Animation showing M8 rupture starting in central California propogating south towards Los Angeles and Salton Sea.

• Puente Hills Rupture Animation (60.8Mb)
  • Animation showing rupture on Puente Hills Fault and wave propagation across the Los Angeles Basin.

• Comparison between south to north and north to south San Andreas Ruptures (134Mb)
  • Scientific animation comparing North to south rupture to south to north rupture on San Andreas including time since origin, location of peak ground motion, distribution of strong ground motions in single animation.

• Impact of ground motions on steel watertank (184Kb)
  • Response of water tank model to ground motions from M8 simulation.

• Rupture Simulation on a Planar Fault (214Kb)
  • Example of a dynamic rupture models on a planar fault.

• Comparison of Kinematic and Dynamic Rupture Simulations (9.3Mb)
  • Animation showing collection of Dynamic Rupture Models compared to Kinematic Rupture Model.

• Wall-to-Wall San Andreas Rupture (49.5Mb)
  • Map view animation of south to north Wall-to-Wall rupture on San Andreas.

• Narrated ShakeOut 2.3 Animation (25Mb)
  • Narrated animation describing ShakeOut scenario earthquake on San Andreas.

• TeraShake 2 Animation (1.2Mb)
  • Map view animation of south to north TeraShake 2 rupture on San Andreas showing cumulative ground motions.

• Narrated TeraShake 2 Animation (29Mb)
  • Narrated animation describing TeraShake 2 rupture on San Andreas, including 3D visualization of earthquake wave propagation.

• TeraShake 2 Animation (1.8Mb)
  • Map view animation of south to north TeraShake 2 rupture on San Andreas showing cumulative ground motions.

• Dynamic Rupture Model Results (325Kb)
  • Animation of south to north TeraShake 2 rupture showing rupture propagation on fault.

• Comparison of three codes, on three systems, modeling same TeraShake (18.3Mb)
  • Animation showing Comparison between Graves, Olsen, and Bielak simulations of TeraShake rupture.

• TeraShake 2 Rupture and ground motion combined (2.3Mb)
  • Animation showing TeraShake rupture and TeraShake ground motions combined into single animation.

• Narrated TeraShake 1 Animation (20Mb)
  • Narrated animation describing TeraShake 1 rupture on San Andreas.

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