Northridge Earthquake Animation

This movie shows 500 years of simulation results generated by GeoFEST, a 3D finite element software modeling solid stress and strain. The data were provided by Dr. Charles Norton of JPL. The simulation data were superimposed on top of LandSAT image of Southern California with Landers faults drawn as a yellow lines. The movie starts with a flying-around of the Landers faults, followed by the deformation resulted from the earthquake. After the initial deformation fades out, it animates the accumulated surface deformation in time for 500 years. Each color fringe in the movie represents 5.6cm vertical displacement, similar to the InSAR C Band fringe.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• Northridge
• earthquake
• JPL
• InSAR