Earthquake: Evidence of a Restless Planet

Production Coordinator
California Academy of Sciences
Visualization Studio

Fulldome Film 2012
Narrated by Benjamin Bratt

This sweeping geological journey gives you front-row seats to epic seismic events, from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake to the break-up of the supercontinent Pangaea 200 million years ago.

Earthquake: Evidence of a Restless Planet | Trailer

Simulation of the 1906 Earthquake,
showing the spread of surface shaking and
fault slippage (in red and yellow,
respectively). | California Academy of Sciences, Data courtesy of Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory — Simulation of the 1906 Earthquake, showing the spread of surface shaking and fault slippage (in red and yellow, respectively). | California Academy of Sciences, Data courtesy of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Seismic simulation showing the spread of
surface shaking and fault slippage, viewed
from below Earth’s crust. | California Academy of Sciences, Data courtesy of
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory — Seismic simulation showing the spread of surface shaking and fault slippage, viewed from below Earth’s crust. | California Academy of Sciences, Data courtesy of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Visualization of seismic waves on the
Earth’s surface above (red), and
propagating through the mantle below
(yellow), viewed from within the Earth. | California Academy of Sciences,
Data courtesy of Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory — Visualization of seismic waves on the Earth’s surface above (red), and propagating through the mantle below (yellow), viewed from within the Earth. | California Academy of Sciences, Data courtesy of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Convergent Plate Boundaries show where
subduction of tectonic plates occurs. | California Academy of Sciences, Data
courtesy of Peter Bird, Professor Emeritus,
Deptartment of Earth and Space Sciences,
UCLA — Convergent Plate Boundaries show where subduction of tectonic plates occurs. | California Academy of Sciences, Data courtesy of Peter Bird, Professor Emeritus, Deptartment of Earth and Space Sciences, UCLA

GPS satellites monitor subtle deformations
in earth’s crust, caused by tectonic
movement. | California Academy of Sciences, Data provided by the UNAVCO
facility — GPS satellites monitor subtle deformations in earth’s crust, caused by tectonic movement. | California Academy of Sciences, Data provided by the UNAVCO facility

The complex fault system of the San
Francisco Bay Area includes the Hayward
fault, shown in yellow. | California Academy of Sciences, Data courtesy of the
U.S. Geological Survey — The complex fault system of the San Francisco Bay Area includes the Hayward fault, shown in yellow. | California Academy of Sciences, Data courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey

Simulation of a possible rupture scenario
along the Hayward Fault. | California Academy of Sciences, Data courtesy of
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory — Simulation of a possible rupture scenario along the Hayward Fault. | California Academy of Sciences, Data courtesy of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

About the production…

https://str.llnl.gov/sites/str/files/2024-04/10.13.6.pdf

https://vesglobal.org/previous-awards/2012-11th-annual-ves-awards/

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3305366.3328056

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoGVRSPVXLg

https://www.calacademy.org/exhibits/earthquake-life-on-a-dynamic-planet

https://www.calacademy.org/earthquakes

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