Earthquakes / Erdbeben 2010-2019

10 years of earthquakes / 2010-01-01 to 2019-12-31 / 1356502 events / depth exaggerated by a factor of 6

This repository documents how the video was made and enables its reproduction.

Open Data

• earthquakes: United States Geological Survey (USGS)
• contours: Copyright © OpenStreetMap contributors / Open Database License 1.0

Open Source Software

• pycairo: 2D rendering
• custom ray-tracer: 3D to 2D
• numpy & numba: acceleration
• zarr: data handling & storage
• ffmpeg: video encoding

Rendering the video yourself

Ensure that you have the following software installed:

• python (3.6 or newer)
• cairo (plus header / development files)
• zlib (plus header / development files)
• ffmpeg
• gcc
• git

Clone this repository from Github and change into its directory:

git clone https://github.com/pleiszenburg/earthquakes_youtube01.git
cd earthquakes_youtube01/

Create a new virtual environment if desired and activate it:

python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
pip install -U pip setuptools

Now you can install the dependencies, fetch the data and render the video:

pip install -r requirements.txt
./prepare_osm.py
./prepare_usgs.py
./render_frames.py
./render_video.py