About the Cover
The most obvious problem in visualizing seismicity is that it occurs in three dimensions but must be displayed in two. The Google Earth viewer, however, is one freely available display system that is well-suited to visualizing seismicity. The cover depicts a Google Earth view looking northeast over the South Island of New Zealand toward the North Island and shows earthquakes of the Hikurangi subduction zone inverted to above the Earth’s surface. It accompanies this issue’s Electronic Seismologist column, “Upside-down Quakes: Displaying 3D Seismicity with Google Earth,” by Duncan Carr Agnew, which starts on page 499. Seismicity data were provided by the New Zealand GeoNet project and its sponsors EQC, GNS Science, and LINZ.
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