VR simulation of Seattle/Tacoma earthquake on the webChicago 28 February 2001 A 3D VRML visualization of the precise location of the 6.8 Seattle/Tacoma earthquake that occurred in February is made available on the web by researchers of the universities of Michigan and Minnesota as part of the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation grid (NEESgrid).
The web site is at: (http://www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/TIDE/SeattleQuake2001/). According to the researchers, the orange ball indicates the earthquake's hypocenter; the yellow dots are hypocenters of previous earthquakes from 1988-1995 with a magnitude greater than 4. The tick marks on the map's depth axis represent 10 km distances down into the earth; the depth axis has been exaggerated three times normal so the data can be more easily read.
Graphics simulations of earthquake phenomena are being collaboratively developed by Paul Morin of the Geology and Geophysics department at the University of Minnesota and Media Union/University of Michigan, Peter van Keken of the Geology department at University of Michigan, and Jason Leigh of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago).
This collaboration is supported through the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation grid (NEESgrid) (http://www.neesgrid.org/).
More information on the earthquake can be found on the IRIS Consortium website (http://www.iris.edu).
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