UT leads largest seismic data set ever created: Nankai 3D ray paths and data sources (VIDEO)

University of Texas at Austin

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Researchers led by The University of Texas at Austin have completed the first ever 3D visualization of a mountain-size rock called the Kumano Pluton buried miles beneath the coast of southern Japan. To build the 3D model, the scientists used Japan’s network of earthquake monitoring sensors (red symbols) to trace seismic shockwaves (colored ray paths) to their source (blue symbols) and extract information on the surrounding geology. Compiled with the help of the Frontera supercomputer at UT’s Texas Advanced Computing Center, it is the largest seismic data set ever created – just 2% is shown here.

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Adrien Arnulf/University of Texas Institute for Geophysics

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