Simulated magnitude -8.0 earthquake
This is a simulation of how an earthquake would propagate along the San Andreas fault if it began in the central segment and passed all the way to the southern segment. The colors and the height of the lines show intensity of shaking. Note how you can see the rupture as it moves - the highest peaks follow the fault (dashed line) directly, but they vary in intensity as the fault strength changes.
http://www.popsci.com/extreme-science-san-andreas?src=SOC&dom=tw
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Reminds me of my old apartment.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of the twin towers collapses - specifically seeing what I hadn't ever taken any time to imagine: the orderly propagation of the collapse. Incidentally I believe that was a factor in the genesis of conspiracy theories, the superposition before naive eyes of a surprising quirk worthy of taking as a scientific lesson, to what was otherwise a heinous aggression that screams agency.
ReplyDeleteIt is indeed a good thing Marianne and I live in the Sierra, the proposed post ‘San Andreas’ coastline… going to be one hell of a walk down to the beach though.
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