{"id":308,"date":"2011-03-24T17:58:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T23:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/?p=308"},"modified":"2011-03-24T18:16:20","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T00:16:20","slug":"fascinating-illustration-of-quakes-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/24\/fascinating-illustration-of-quakes-motion\/","title":{"rendered":"Fascinating Illustration of Quake&#8217;s Motion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First watch this illustration of the mechanics of the earthquake. You may even want to play it a few time to follow the action. (You may have to use your &#8220;back arrow&#8221; to return to this page.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RVaDXsqLUtI\">Subduction<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then follow that up with a look at the next animation of the records from the many survey grade GPS\/GNSS observation stations across the Islands recording their positions continually. It too may need more than one viewing to see what it happening. It happens quickly.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sendai_displacements_0530-0630UTC.avi'>GPS\/GNSS CORS displacements_0530-0630UTC Sendai<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The movie shows the displacements due to the M9.0 and M7.9 earthquakes  in Japan on March 11, 2011 (data, no model!). It shows body and surface waves, and static displacements.<\/p>\n<p>Visualization: R. Grapenthin, Geophysical Institute, Univ. Alaska Fairbanks. Data:  preliminary GPS positioning solutions provided by ARIA\/HPL\/Caltech. All original GEONET RINEX  data were provided to Caltech by the Geospatial Information Authority  (GSI) of Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing visualization by R. 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