2010 Intern Class
As you know, SCEC-VDO can be used to visualize various geo-referenced datasets and subsurface structures of California and other earthquake-prone regions. Earth scientists and educators use the movies made using SCEC-VDO to convey important concepts about earthquakes, faults, and earthquake risk reduction. Continuing this tradition, you will develop short movies to explain some basic earthquake science concepts and to educate the audience about the complex nature of the fault systems in California.
Mini Grand Challenge: Tell the story of the 2010 SCEC all-intern field trip and major concepts related to earthquake science using SCEC-VDO and other multimedia tools.
You will divide into three teams for this assignment. Everyone will create a SCEC-VDO visualization that covers a specific topic. You must develop clear and concise narratives and metadata for each of your movies. For the showcase presentation, each team member will present and narrate one movie to a general audience. Each movie should be no longer than 90 seconds. The all-intern field trip showcase is scheduled for Friday morning, July 2nd.
Team 1: The Great California ShakeOut
1. Why California is referred to as “earthquake country?”
2. How fault surfaces are represented?
3. How all fault types are found in California
4. How focal mechanisms can be determined from earthquake data?
5. Do all earthquakes occur on faults?
6. On which faults major earthquakes have occurred since the 1906 San Francisco earthquake?
7. Where and on which faults the deadliest earthquakes in California occurred?
8. What kind of plate boundaries are found in California?
Team 2: San Andreas Fault Field Trip
1. How the San Andreas is not strictly a strike-slip fault
2. Why the San Andreas can be divided into segments
3. How the major segments of the San Andreas have different recurrence intervals
4. How the San Gorgonio Pass is an earthquake “traffic jam”
5. How extensional forces caused the Salton Trough
6. What is the big bend and why is it important?
7. What is the waveguide effect?
Team 3: Faults of Los Angeles Field Trip
1. How LA is a city of faults?
2. How fault features are expressed in an urban environment?
3. How the Raymond, Hollywood, and Santa Monica faults are related?
4. How we are “blind” to some of our faults?
5. How the San Gabriel Mountains were uplifted?
6. How the 1971 San Fernando and the 1994 Northridge earthquakes compare?