Visualizing the ground motions of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1798-1805

  Chourasia, Amit ^a   Cutchin, Steve ^a   Aagaard, Brad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

1906 San Francisco earthquake; Earthquake simulation; Visualization

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKES; MAPS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VISUALIZATION;

1906 SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE; ANIMATION TOOLS; COMPUTATIONAL CAPABILITIES; DATA-SETS; EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTIONS; EARTHQUAKE SIMULATION; GROUND MOTIONS; GROUND-MOTION SIMULATIONS; HIGH DEGREE OF ACCURACY; PHYSICAL PHENOMENON; SAN FRANCISCO; SEISMIC STUDIES; STATE OF THE ARTS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MAPS; VISUAL REALISM; VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS;

SEISMOLOGY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA PROCESSING; GROUND MOTION; MAPPING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE 1906; SEISMIC WAVE; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VISUALIZATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 52049097520     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2008.01.012     Document Type: Article

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