Tomographic model of Southern California
This is an interactive site to view the vertical and horizontal cross sections of the tomographic model from the PhD thesis of Carl Tape.
For details, see "Adjoint tomography of the southern California crust" (Science, v. 325, p. 988-992), by Carl Tape, Qinya Liu, Alessia Maggi, and Jeroen Tromp.
The study used earthquake simulations such as the ones used by ShakeMovie.
The wave-speed values at the gridpoints used in the simulation can be downloaded from Carl's PhD thesis page.

Vertical Cross sections

Cursor Lon, Lat

Horizontal Cross sections

Select a depth from the list to see the tomographic model for that cross section.

Depth [km below sea-level]

horizontal cross-section image

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Supported by

Southern California Earthquake Center US Geological Survey -- Western Region California Institute of Technology Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

Last updated: Oct 06 2009 by Faria Chowdhury