Technologies for Urban and Regional Risk Analysis
San Francisco Bay Area Earthquake Simulation
Using Google Earth Engine to compute earthquake ground-motion site-amplification.
This program in partnership with Google demonstrated the use of Google Earth Engine to model earthquake hazard. Taking advantage of the multi-layer geospatial data repository and parallelized computing engine, the research team developed (1) a global estimate of shear wave velocity at 30m depth, used to to compute site-related earthquake ground motion amplification, and (2) conduct very rapid estimation of ground shaking for a given earthquake scenario event, such as the rupture of the hayward fault shown here.
San Francisco Bay Area - Simulated Hayward Fault Rupture
Novel technologies such as Google's Earth Engine platform is used for rapid high-resolution computation of earthquake ground shaking.
Contributors
David Lallemant
Maryia Markhvida
Jack Baker
Christiaan Adams