“The Big One” by San Diego Supercomputer Center
Conference:
- SIGGRAPH 2009 More animation videos from SIGGRAPH 2009:
SIGGRAPH Video Review:
Track:
- 06
Title:
- The Big One
Director(s):
Company / Institution / Agency:
- San Diego Supercomputer Center
Description:
This animated visualization illustrates some of the rupture and wave propagation phenomena of a magnitude 7.8 earthquake on the San Andreas fault in southern California (“The Big One”). The animation captures more than four minutes of the complex dynamic rupture and wave propagation, including directivity effects, wave-guide phenomena, and local amplification of the ground shaking. The visualization presents these physical effects in an intuitive yet accessible manner, using a variety of visual representations and several views. The animation uses 11.8 terabytes of earthquake simulation output from a state-of-the-art earthquake simulation.
Hardware:
OnDemand cluster (SDSC), Ranger supercomputer (TACC) Precision 670 workstation
Software:
Autodesk Maya, Scalable Visualization Toolkit (SDSC) Teem Toolkit, Generic Mapping Tools, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator
Additional Contributors:
Director/Visualization: Amit Chourasia
Simulation: Kim Olsen, Steven Day, Luis Dalguer, Yifeng Cui, Jing Zhu, David Okaya, Philip Maechling, Thomas Jordan, San Diego Supercomputer Center and Southern California Earthquake Center
