ShakeMaps
What are they?
ShakeMaps display earthquake-generated shaking intensities (and likely
damage) within minutes, to guide your response.
Real
earthquake
ShakeMaps are derived
automatically using sensors deployed regionally. Scenario ShakeMaps
for
hypothetical
earthquakes
are
derived
from
computer-models.
More information about ShakeMaps may be found on the original
USGS
ShakeMap webpage.
2012
Evergreen
Earthquake
Exercise
ShakeMaps
M6.7
Seattle |
M5.7
Darrington-Devils Mtn |
M7.4 South
Whidbey Island |
M7.1
Tacoma |
M7.2
Olympia-Nisqually |
White polygons outline the surface-projection of the fault that breaks during each scenario earthquake. Faults are planar surfaces that dip at some angle relative to the surface, so more vertically-dipping fault traces appear skinnier. The M7.2 Olympia-Nisqually epicenter is shown instead (star) because the earthquake occurs on an unknown fault. |
> 1
billion$ 100 million to 1 billion $ 1 to 100 million $ |
Earthquake Impact Pages show the
total population in the mapped area
exposed to each shaking intensity level, using the ShakeMap intensity
scale (same scale as in section above). |
The estimated aggregate losses in each county are plotted on top of the ShakeMap, with the 10 most-impacted cities with >10,000 people noted. | A table lists each city on the
map with its population and the shaking intensity it experiences noted
by its numeric value and corresponding color. |