ShakeMovies

Types of Earthquake Animations created by SCEC researchers:

Scenario Earthquake Animations

• ShakeOut Movie
• M8 Movie

• Side-by-Side Comparison of ShakeOut Earthquake from 3 methods (27MB) .mov format

Map view animations showing side-by-side comparison of ground motions produced by 3 different ground motion simulation methods (Graves, AWP, and Hercules).

Narrated Animations

• M8 Earthquake Rupture shown using GlyphSea Viz Technique (93.8MB) .mov format Demonstration of experimental vector visualization technique (Glyphsea) applied to M8 rupture (Amit Chourasia, Kim Olsen, Yifeng Cui et al 2010)

Site-oriented Animations

• Long Beach Perspective
• Palm Springs Perspective

Building Oriented Simulations

• 18 Story Steel Frame Building Response Animation (122MB) .mov format

Building response animation showing 18 story steel frame response to M8 ground motions records (Swaminathan Krishnan et al 2010)

ShakeMovie Sites

• Caltech ShakeMovie
• Global ShakeMovie

Related Entries

• CME Project