Animation: Crustal deformation in the Nicoya peninsula associated with the September 5th, 2012 earthquake

For the past fifteen years, the Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Costa Rica (OVSICORI) in cooperation with American Universities, has been recording crustal defor-mation data prior a potential earthquake in the Nicoya Peninsula, anticipation which came true on September 5th, 2012 with the occurrence of a 7.6 moment magnitude (Mw) earth-quake. The historical importance of this earthquake is based on continuous monitoring of the Nicoya Peninsula before, during and after the earthquake, making it one of the best docu-mented earthquake in history. The objective of this project is to visualize earthquake data in order to view displacement in two and three dimensions. Another goal is to make the method for showing the behavior of the crust during the earthquake, more intuitive. The target ques-tion of the visualizations is only one: to show how the earth?s crust moved previous and dur-ing the earthquake in each of the affected areas. We know of no other visualization that use a 3D environment to visualize one earthquake with actual data in this detail level.