Animations and Graphics

Animations



Slow slip events and tremors beneath Cascadia

The earthquake cycle in the Los Angeles basin

Continental drift

 - version 2
 - focus on Himalayas

Seismic cycle

 - with GPS


Tsunami

Mountain building
Formation of the Grand Canyon layers

Western US extension

 - description

Seafloor spreading


Flat subduction


Coral growth


Earthquake rupture

Parkfield Documentary


Himalaya Animation


Graphics

Fault Zone Anatomy


2007 Pisco earthquake


Fault zone


Japan 2011 earthquake and tsunami

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Global Maps

Seismicity
- high resolution

Tectonic plates

Seafloor age

Seismicity - Polar view

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MASE


Flat slab - tomography data

Flat slab - cartoon

Flat slab closeup - receiver function data
  - with insert

Flat slab closeup - cartoon

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Sumatra

Plate motion

Locked fault zones

Rupture length

Sumatra ruptures

Coral head

Sudden subsidence

Subduction zone

Sudden uplift

Coral slice

Earthquakes

Coral growth

Coral analysis


Locking

Coral colony

Standing on coral

Removing coral section

Coral with section removed

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