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SCEC researchers produce a wide variety of scientific movies and animations. SCEC Visualization Groups include SDSC, PSC, ISI, USC, and SCEC Interns. Earthquake Animations created by SCEC researchers include:

Earthquake Animation Catalog

Animation Number Animation Short Name Animation Description File Format (Size) Image Credit
Animation_1 M8 Perspective Animation showing the north to south M8 California earthquake rupture, with a perspective above the fault. The amplitude of the ground motion is shown as exaggerated topography. The animation shows a seismic shock waves is formed at the rupture front, and a strong stopping pulse as the rupture ends south of the Salton Sea. YouTube Movie Format Amit Chourasia Steve Cutchin Yifeng Cui (SDSC), Kim Olsen (SDSU)
Animation_2 M8 Map View Animation showing the M8 California earthquake rupture in a map view format. YouTube Movie Format Amit Chourasia Steve Cutchin Yifeng Cui (SDSC), Kim Olsen (SDSU)
ShakeOut Movie Animation_3] Shakeout Map View ShakeOut earthquake animation showing ground motions in a map view. YouTube Movie Format Robert Graves (USGS), Geoff Ely Amit Chourasia Yifeng Cui (SDSC), Philip Maechling (SCEC)
Animation_4 Shakeout_Long_Beach_Perspective ShakeOut earthquake animation showing ground motions from the perspective of a site in Long Beach California. The animation shows the ground motions approaching from the south, then long lasting long period motions throughout the city. YouTube Movie Format Brad Aagaard (USGS), Amit Chourasia Steve Cutchin (SDSC), Mark Benthien (SCEC)
Animation_5 EQ_LaHabra_Site_Fullerton Simulation showing the effects of ground motions on objects in Fullerton, about 15km from epicenter of La Habra Earthquake. The animation was created by retrieving the observed ground motions from a Fullerton strong motion station for the La Habra earthquake, then inputting these seismograms into a scene containing everyday objects, and used a physics-engine to show the results of the ground motions on the objects. Quicktime .mov format (23.3Mb) Philip Maechling (SCEC)

Scenario Earthquake Animations

Fig 1: M8 Wave Propagation Movie (Credit: Amit Chourasia)
Fig 2: M8 Velocity Mag as Height Field (Credit: Amit Chourasia)

M8 Wave Height Field movies provide another view of the M8 simulation results. These animations show M8 simulation ground motion intensity (velocity magnitude) as exaggerated local elevation.

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). Vector Field with narration show new techniques for visualizing 4D vector fields. Work was done by Amit Chourasia and J.B. Minster with Emmett McQuinn while Emmett worked as a SCEC Graduate Student Intern. Amit and Emmett presented their vector visualization work at a computer visualization conference SIGGRAPH2010.
Fig 3: Ground Motion Vector Visualization (Narrated) (Credit: Emmett McQuinn, Amit Chourasia)

Wall2Wall Ensemble Simulation Animation

ShakeOut 2.3 Simulation (Narration included)

TeraShake 2.1 Simulation (Narration included)

TeraShake 1.3 (Narration included)

Site-oriented Animations

Building Oriented Simulations


Fig 4: Virtual Shaker Results with M8 data in Northridge with building nodes color-scaled to peak displacement. (Credit: Sandarsh Kumar)

These movies visualize building response to SCEC simulation ground motions. In this example, a 18 story steel frame building is shaken by M8 ground motions in the Northridge, California area.

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