Title: Seismic-Sites: a Web-based Field Guide to the Faults of
Southern California

Author(s): Constant, Ben (UCSD), James, Alex (UCSD), Morikawa,Evan
(HTH), Kilb, Debi (SIO), Nayak, Atul (SIO), Schwehr, Kurt (SIO),
Marquis, John (SCEC), Benthien, Mark (SCEC), Agnew, Duncan (SIO),
Abbott, Pat (SDSU), Kent, Graham (SIO). and Kane, Deborah (UCSD)

Text of Abstract: 
Seismologists who grew up in California in the 1960s can probably
trace their interest in the subject to the book Earthquake Country by
Robert Iacopi (1964), which explains why California has earthquakes
and how to live with them. This book also includes a driving guide to
the major faults, giving readers directions for driving along, for
example, the San Andreas fault, with accompanying descriptive text. We
emulate the travel part of Iacopis book, using the SCEC web portal
interface titled the Community Organized Resource Environment (CORE;
http://www.scec.org/core/) to help create a virtual field guide of the
San Diego region. Our contribution to CORE consists of a Seismic-Sites
module that provides an online catalog of geologic photos, maps,
web-links, references, anaglyph and panoramic images and instructions
on how to reach noteworthy destinations along easily accessible
roads. In the long term these data will be freely available to anyone
with internet access, including weekend road trippers and geology
classes. In this way, one can design their own field trip with a few
clicks of the mouse. Our 2004 summer Seismic-Sites project (conducted
by UCSD undergraduate students Alex James and Ben Constant, with
additional assistance from high school student Evan Morikawa) focuses
on fault features in the San Diego region. We are currently
experimenting with augmenting these catalogs with additional features
including a 3D interactive scene file of the region (topography,
bathymetry, seismicity, and geo-referenced photographs) that can be
downloaded and run on any platform using the freeware iView3D
(http://www.siovizcenter.ucsd.edu/library/objects/index.php).