Combing through the massive amounts of data regarding this year’s massive 9.0 earthquake off the coast of Japan, researchers have found mountains of useful information. Visualizing it all usefully has proven tricky, but some new techniques coming out of the University of Alaska at Fairbanks show promise.
“When the massive data set from Japan became available through the ARIA project of JPL-Caltech, I had to come up with a better way to look at all this information,” said geophysicist Ronni Grapenthin at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks.
Check out the impressive video of the data below. Researchers hope that it will pave the way for new real-time GPS monitoring stations that can deliver these same results instantly, making for far more accurate predictions of earthquake strength in the future.
