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For the 2017/2018 summer period the USER Grand Challenge is: ‘Modelling, visualising, and communicating future major earthquakes and their impacts to the New Zealand public’. QuakeCoRE researchers have recently developed models of over 500 different major earthquakes that might occur in the near future in New Zealand and undertaken advanced simulations (using NZ’s largest supercomputers) which predict how strong the ground will shake in each earthquake (e.g. such as this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9c-Fwhaigc ), and the aim of the USER Grand Challenge is to:
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(1) Modelling: Use existing models to determine the consequent liquefaction, landslides, building and bridge damage, highway/pipeline/telecommunication systems damage, and socio-economic impacts. (students with background in Science, Engineering, Social Science).
(2) Visualisation: Develop and use computational visualisation tools to convey the earthquakes, their ground shaking, and the modelled impacts (students with background in Mathematics, programming, computer science).
(3) Communication: Use one of more audio-visual methods to develop materials (e.g. posters, videos, podcasts, blogs, webpages) which can be used to efficiently and effectively communicate to the general public (students with background in the creative and performing arts, hazard management, social science).
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