HR: 0800h
AN: IN41A-0065    [Abstracts]
TI: IRIS Earthquake Browser with Integration to the GEON IDV for 3-D Visualization of Hypocenters.
AU: * Weertman, B R
EM: bruce@iris.washington.edu
AF: IRIS Data Management Center, 1408 NE 45th st, suite 201, Seattle, wa 98105, United States
AB: We present a new generation of web based earthquake query tool - the IRIS Earthquake Browser (IEB). The IEB combines the DMC's large set of earthquake catalogs (provided by USGS/NEIC, ISC and the ANF) with the popular Google Maps web interface. With the IEB you can quickly and easily find earthquakes in any region of the globe. Using Google's detailed satellite images, earthquakes can be easily co-located with natural geographic features such as volcanoes as well as man made features such as commercial mines. A set of controls allow earthquakes to be filtered by time, magnitude, and depth range as well as catalog name, contributor name and magnitude type. Displayed events can be easily exported in NetCDF format into the GEON Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) where hypocenters may be visualized in three dimensions. Looking "under the hood", the IEB is based on AJAX technology and utilizes REST style web services hosted at the IRIS DMC. The IEB is part of a broader effort at the DMC aimed at making our data holdings available via web services. The IEB is useful both educationally and as a research tool.
UR: http://www.iris.edu/ieb
DE: 0520 Data analysis: algorithms and implementation
DE: 0845 Instructional tools
DE: 7209 Earthquake dynamics (1242)
DE: 7230 Seismicity and tectonics (1207, 1217, 1240, 1242)
DE: 7290 Computational seismology
SC: Earth and Space Science Informatics [IN]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting