Visual insights into high-resolution earthquake simulations

IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 28-34

  Chourasia, Amit ^a   Cutchin, Steve ^a   Cui, Yifeng ^a   Moore, Reagan W ^a   Olsen, Kim ^b   Day, Steven M ^b   Minster, J Bernard ^c   Maechling, Philip ^d   Jordan, Thomas H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Southern California Earthquake Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake simulation; Earthquake visualization; Self contouring; TeraShake; Topography deformation; Visualization insight

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKES; TOPOGRAPHY;

EARTHQUAKE SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE VISUALIZATION; VISUALIZATION INSIGHT;

VISUALIZATION;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISASTER; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; THEORETICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NATURAL DISASTERS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 34548787254     PISSN: 02721716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCG.2007.138     Document Type: Article

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