Description

The Tōhoku earthquake (9.1 magnitude) hit Japan on March 11, 2011 for a duration of 5 minutes, and was followed by a tsunami which claimed the life of close to 16.000 people. The seismic events shown took place on that same day, between 01h41 and 23h59 (GMT). At 0.5X animation speed, 1 second of animation = 1 hour in real time. The main earthquake happened at 05h46 (1:80 mark in the animation), and slowing down the animation speed to 0.1X or keeping manual control around this event should allow you to better understand the aftershocks propagation. Data: * Topography and bathymetry: [Etopo1 Global Relief Model](https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/global.html) * Earthquakes: [ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog](https://earthquake.usgs.gov/data/comcat/) * Fault plane: [Slab2: A Comprehensive Subduction Zone Geometry Model](https://doi.org/10.5066/F7PV6JNV) Created with python and blender ( and love :) ) *NEXT: add focal mechanisms, better metadata, funkier colormaps and superimpose historical maps?*