PASADENA, Calif. – NASA software that models the behavior of earthquake faults to improve earthquake forecasting and our understanding of earthquake processes, and NASA’s first mobile a… ...

First mobile NASA app and QuakeSim share agency's 2012 Software Award. by Sonja Alexander, Rachel Hoover And Alan Buis, NASANASA ...

For QuakeSim, the finite elements are tens to hundreds of thousands of measurements of how Earth’s crust deforms in response to movement of the giant tectonic plates Earth’s landmasses ride upon.

The 2012 Software Award was shared by NASA's first mobile app and the QuakeSim software, which models the behavior of earthquake faults to improve earthquake forecasting. Sep 24, 2012; ...

Quake forecast gets high score in study Date: October 3, 2011 Source: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory Summary: While earthquakes can't yet be predicted, scientists are making advances in their ...