Earthquake Videos, Animations and Visualizations Suggested by Students

IRIS animations about earthquakes

• Earthquake Early Warning: Pacific Northwest subduction zone
  http://www.iris.edu/hq/inclass/animation/earthquake_early_warning_pacific_northwest_subduction_zone
• GPS Measures Deformation in Subduction Zones: Ocean/continent
  http://www.iris.edu/hq/inclass/animation/gps_measures_deformation_in_subduction_zones_oceancontinent
• Pacific Northwest vs Japan: Similar tectonic settings
  http://www.iris.edu/hq/inclass/animation/pacific_northwest_vs_japan_similar_tectonic_settings
• IRIS animations about earthquakes, GPS, LiDAR, and other interesting tidbits
  http://www.iris.edu/hq/inclass/search

Tohoku (Japan) earthquake, tsunami, nuclear disaster, 11 March 2011

• Earthscope's event page, with links to multiple resources
  http://www.earthscope.org/science/geo-events/m9.0-tohoku-japan-march-11-2011
• Japan's tsunami, how it happened (46:56)
  https://youtu.be/TPHl3P-FedM or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPHl3P-FedM&feature=youtu.be&nohtml5=False#t=1546.778287782
• Tsunami Japan, Big Wave (YouTube)
  https://youtu.be/gNQXkd1iLTE

M7.2 Baja California 4 April 2010

• Seiche in swimming pool, M7.2, Baja California EQ 4 April 2010 (2 minutes 10 seconds) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0t2r_NuX-k&feature=related (found on the web by Sarah Staats)

M8.8 Chile 2010

• Raw hotel security camera footage (2 min 14 sec) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c--DeiBirKM (found on the web by Peter Winchell)

M7 Haiti, 12 September 2010

• 360 degree video of the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2010/01/world/haiti.360/index.html (found on the web by Cory Schmunsler)
• Haiti EQ caught on tape http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6094180n (found on the web by Kasidy Kersey)
• US Embassy in Haiti, security camera (1 minute 48 secondshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79S-6UqGCbU&feature=related (found on the web by Amy Welch)
• Plamera Market during Haiti earthquake http://vodpod.com/watch/2974987-haiti-earthquake-video-inside-super-market (found on the web by Robin Zapotocky)

Sumatra Tsunami, 2004

• Boxing Day tsunami, Indonesia (5 minutes 58 seconds) https://mail.baylor.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=d28a43b5bdaa40b898c3915e89da49b0&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.youtube.com%2fwatch%3fv%3dRDOuwMj7Xzo%26feature%3demail (found on the web by Ben Pittner)

Loma Prieto, California

• Northern California, October 17, 1989 (Loma Preito) and Taiwan, September 21, 1999 (48 seconds) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y-62Ti5_6s (found on the web by Holly Renner & Katherine McMordie)
• California Earthquake (Loma Prieto) (1 minute 2 seconds)http://youtube.com/watch?v=FW-TkpvKPl0 (found on the web by Blake Clark, Will Sharman, Andrea Hauge)
• Earthquake destruction, from National Geographic, about Loma Prieto (2 minutes 22 seconds) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtBXTvtFaCU (found on the web by Morgan Bridges, Kirsten Rude, Jesse Ross)

Kobe, Japan

• Kobe EQ motion in a store, from security cam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJPS4lokxtw&feature=related (found on the web by Taylor Felty)

Miscellaneous

• EarthScope Cascadia EQ animation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQES0ALjUoI
• Earthquake video from National Geographic http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/environment/environment-natural-disasters/earthquakes/inside-earthquake.html (found on the web by Emily Gorham)
• National Geographic earthquake 101 video http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/environment/environment-natural-disasters/earthquakes/earthquake-101.html (found on the web by Jay Olivares)
• Shake Out visualization http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/video?id=6502948 (found on the web by Aaron Meche
• Hayward fault scenario visualization (1 minute 16 seconds) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKpH8_Uh_3s (found on the web by Michelle Singleton)
• Video of the Chino Hills quake from Incycle Bicycles in San Dimas (20 seconds) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuLrDm45I-o&feature=related (found on the web by Allison Fisher)
• Earthquake animations and movies from McGraw-Hill publishers http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072402466/student_view0/chapter16/animations_and_movies.html# (found on the web by Taylor Fletcher)
• TERC collections of earthquake visualizations, etc. http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/visualizations/es1005/es1005page01.cfm?chapter_no=visualization (found on the web by Taylor Fletcher)
• Some good visualizations of earthquakes
  • Visualization of the deployment of the Transportable Array: http://anf.ucsd.edu/stations/deployment_history.php
  • Active Earth computer kiosk display: http://www.iris.edu/about/ENO/aed.htm or contact Patrick McQuillan at mcquillan@iris.edu
    A sample display can be viewed at http://www.iris.edu/activeearth/index.phtml?code=AGU2007
  • Earthquake visualizations: http://www.iris.edu/hq/earthquake_animations
  • Earthquakes (yellow dots) recorded as the USArray seismographs (red dots) were deployed, 2005-2008 ((USArray_time_progression_v5_sml.mov) by Debi Kilb of the Scripps Visualization Center (siovizcenter.ucsd.edu) 5.6 MB
  • Earthquake visualizations and visualization tutorial from IRIS: http://www.iris.edu/hq/programs/education_and_outreach/visualizations
  • The visualization of the M6 earthquake near Wells, Nevada, february 2008: http://www.iris.edu/hq/usarray_animations/movies/Event_2008_052_14_16_02.mov

Humor

• Funny fake earthquake (35 seconds)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-4N4Iuzo8E (found on the web by Michelle Singleton)

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