GLG410/598--Computers in Earth and Space Exploration

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Assignment 4: Interactive Yellowstone Earthquake Analysis

For this assignment, please assemble the operations of Tuesday's interactive Yellowstone seismicity analysis. Cut and paste the commands from the lecture into a Matlab m-file (script). Include comments in the script that tell the user what each group of commands is doing. Perform your analysis, including the histograms, on a couple of earthquake groups and compare. Remember to save your maps and histograms using the print function. Make sure you are not "overwriting" previous jpeg files when you analyze more than one swarm!

Build a web page for this assignment that contains the following:
  1. Map of event group 1
  2. Histograms for group 1 (earthquakes per year and earthquake magnitudes)
  3. Map of event group 2
  4. Histograms for group 2 (earthquakes per year and earthquake magnitudes)
  5. A link to your M-file (Matlab script) used to make these plots
  6. Discussion: Compare these groups of events using these graphs and describe what you see. Speculate briefly about the processes that might be operating in this system and why or why not the groups might be swarms/clusters.
Grading Rubric (30 points): Assignment is due Tuesday, February 17, 2009.

GLG410/598 Computers in Earth and Space Exploration
Last modified: February 11, 2009