ERTH 451 - Animations Shown in Class
Lecture 1: Earthquakes and you
Preparedness Now - California ShakeOut
Lecture 2: Basic Earth observations
Seismic sounds (CMT 20-year earthquake catalog)
The future of plate tectonics
The early Earth and plate tectonics
Silly Putty time lapse
Mantle convection computer simulation
Mantle convection (fun)
Lecture 3: "Realizing" plate tectonics
Plate tectonics song
Reversals of the magnetic field
Harry Hess's discovery of seafloor mountain chains
Lecture 4: Connecting plate tectonics
Plate tectonics explained (luggage conveyor belt)
Pangea popup
Mantle convection computer simulation (1)
Mantle convection computer simulation (II)
Sea floor age evolution
Divergent plate boundaries
Divergent plate boundaries - fast spreading
Seafloor spreading
Convergent plate boundaries
Alaskan Trench subduction
Why is Everest so tall?
Transform faults
San Andreas (transform) fault
Aerial views of the San Andreas
Tsunamis generated by megathrust earthquakes
Lecture 5: Plate motions and the earthquake cycle
Measuring plate tectonics with GPS
Elasticity and rocks
Elastic rebound theory
Lecture 6: Geodesy and crustal motion using GPS
The EarthScope Program
Ghost Forests & the 1700 Cascadia earthquake/tsunami
How does GPS work?
Unexpected ways scientists use GPS
How does GPS work (2)?
ShakeAlert: An earthquake warning from your cell phone
Tectonic history of Western North America and Southern California
Lecture 7: Earthquake basics
Lucy Jones (seismologist) interview
What causes earthquakes?
Seismic waves interactive simulation (IRIS)
Lecture 8: Locating earthquake epicenters
Earthquakes: Like ripples on water?
Horizontal seismograph
Vertical seismograph
Ground Motion Visualizations (GMVs)
March 2011 Japan earthquake measured by the US Array
Seismograms as a function of distance
Lecture 9: Earth structure
Reliving the Beast Quake
Quickshake seismic readings provided by the PNSN
Seismic tomography
Lecture 10: Ray theory and seismic phases
1812 New Madrid Earthquakes
Seismic phases - P-wave shadow zone
Seismic phases - S-wave shadow zone
Travel time curves
Lecture 11: Seismic wave speeds and elastic moduli
Earthquakes 101
1971 San Fernando, CA earthquake
Prepare for earthquakes in Hawaii
Hawaii earthquake sources
Lecture 12: Interpreting seismograms
Seismometer installation
Ocean seismometers
How seismographs work
3 component seismograms
USArray and Virginia 2011 quake
iSeismometer demo
Lecture 13: Earthquake depths and magnitudes
Earthquake magnitudes
Can a M9.6 San Andreas megaquake happen?
2001 Nisqually earthquake
Lecture 14: Earthquake magnitudes
Richter scale origin
Bill Nye Science Guy - Richter scale
Earthquake energy scale
What bumped the Richter scale - Moment magnitude
Lecture 15: Focal mechanisms
Faulting types
Focal mechanisms explained
Utah mine disaster
Seismology forensics - Utah mine disaster
Lecture 16: InSAR
Using InSAR (from Michigan Tech)
InSAR review
Interference pattern
InSAR - its magic (JPL simple flyby)
Earthquake monitoring from space (ESA)
Mt. Etna "breathing"
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
Lecture 17: Earthquake recurrence
Parkfield: Earthquake capitol of the world
Parkfield 2004 earthquake (trees shaking)
Earthquakes to the core: SAFOD drilling
SAFOD drilling cores
SAFOD timeline
Dynamic rupture models (Hayward Fault)
Southern California earthquake simulation, M7.8
High-resolution earthquake simulations
Los Angeles HD Earthquake Simulation
M8 earthquake simulation on the San Andreas fault
Can we predict earthquakes?
Can animals predict earthquakes?
Earthquake prediction (Physics World)
Lecture 19: Hawaiian earthquakes
2006 Kiholo Bay earthquake caught on camera
Prepare for earthquakes in Hawaii
Hawaii earthquake sources
1975 Big Island M7.7 quake tsunami animation
Lecture 20: Episodic tremor and slip
ETS Student Blog
Stick-slip earthquake motion
Episodic slip earthquake motion
Big Island slow slip event
Lecture 21: Earthquake conversations
Anatomy of an earthquake
Stick-slip earthquake motion
What is fracking?
Waste water and fracking
Lecture 22: Tsunamis
Tsunami generation
Sumatra tsunami animation (December 26, 2004)
Sumatra tsunami animation from NOAA
March 2011 Japan tsunami
2011 Japan earthquake tsunami disaster
Lecture 23: Tsunamis cont. and 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
1906 SF earthquake, before and after
1906 SF earthquake devastation
Documentary: 1906 San Francisco earthquake
1946 Hilo tsunami footage (I think)
Lecture 24: Planetary quakes
What's inside Mars? InSIGHT Mission to Mars
Moonquakes and Mars quakes
New moonquakes discovered
How the tiger stripes deform Enceladus
Tides