Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
Learning From Earthquakes

Pre- and Post-Disaster Imagery in Google Street View

Access Google’s digital archive of Northeastern Japan areas affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami: Experience the tsunami-affected areas of Japan through Street View (The Google map will automatically start you in street view, so you can click and drag the image to explore the street view.) Compare the street views for before and after the […]

Map of Damage in Fredericksburg

 See the Map: Earthquake Damage Fredericksburg, VA.  Read the Patch article: Mapping Quake Damage in FredericksburgFredericksburg Figure 1. Mapping Quake Damage in Fredericksburg.      

Geosciences report from UNAVCO

UNAVCO stands ready to support responses to this event. Current actions include: Recent satellite SAR (ENVISAT) data acquisitions have been confirmed and future acquisitions (ENVISAT and TerraSAR-X) have been requested covering the region near the epicenter. WInSAR users will have access to ENVISAT data. Detailed information will be posted in the forums. Campaign GPS systems […]

COSMO-Skymed Image of Van

  Acquisition details: Satellite ID : SAR4 Polarization: HH Record number: 100720552 Sensor Mode: STR_HIMAGE Lookside: R Missing line percentage:0 Start time: 10/10/11 3:12:57 PM.557 Number of gaps: 0 Stop time: 10/10/11 3:13:05 PM.102 Pass direction: Descending Near Range Incidence Angle: 27.752 degrees Orbit number: 5015 Far Range Incidence Angle: 30.948 degrees       […]

COSMO-SkyMed SAR pixel offsets Map

Download the Google Earth kmz file: COSMO-SkyMed SAR pixel offsets Map The KMZ file and an image made from it are also available on the GEO Supersite: http://supersites.earthobservations.org/van.php#Fri2 Image caption information: COSMO-SkyMed (CSK) SAR pixel offsets (sub-pixel correlation) map of displacements in the radar line-of-sight (28 degrees from vertical and roughly west). Derived from CSK scenes acquired […]

Aftershocks and Slip Distribution Results

  Eric Bergman’s relocations (red); and Turkey’s aftershock locations (yellow). Cross-sections are taken perpendicular to WCMT planes. The slip distribution is pinned to an early hypocenter relocation from Eric, and a depth of 16 km. More information on this link: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usp000j9rr#finite-fault Figure 1. Moment rate function.     Figure 2. Slip distribution map.     Figure […]

Ground motion data from KATNP now also available for the two large May 12 events.

  The Center for Engineering Strong Motion Data (CESMD) also posted  data for the two large aftershocks on May 12th. Time stamps of the records may not be accurate. NepalAftershock1_12May2015 2015-05-12 07:05:19 UTC 27.837 086.077 7.3 NepalAftershock2_12May2015 2015-05-12 07:36:53 UTC 27.618 086.166 6.3 CESMD: List of all available earthquakes in 2015   Curated topics from […]

Strong Ground Motion data from Nepal’s mainshock and two larger aftershocks

The Center for Engineering Strong Motion Data (CESMD) has made available strong motion records from the station NQ.KATNP (www.strongmotioncenter.org). The following links lead to strong ground motion data from Nepal’s mainshock and two larger aftershocks. (1) Magnitude 7.8 Gorkha earthquake (mainshock) on April 25th, 2015 (2) Magnitude 7.3 Aftershock on May 12th, 2015 at 07:05 (approximately 75 […]