Comments on: Whats Shakin?

Whats Shakin?

owhydididoit — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 18:21:11 -0800

The Seismic Monitor is a map of recent earthquake activity. Earthquakes that have occurred in the last two weeks are depicted as circles with diameters corresponding to their magnitudes. You can click the map to zoom in on regions, and you can click the represented earthquakes to see information about them.

By: Steven C. Den Beste

Steven C. Den Beste — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 18:24:56 -0800

This is where they're getting their data from.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 18:37:31 -0800

Thanks, owhy, this is interesting. I tell ya, living in Tokyo certainly raises one's awareness of tremblors: the whole earthquake thing, you know, really hits home. Literally. When your house gets those little jolts and shakes, and the utensils hanging in the kitchen sway a little bit, man, that'll really get your adrenalin racing. And of course there are several red circles around Japan: daily occurences here in the Land of Wa...

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 18:41:13 -0800

Thanks also for the USGS link, Steven C. Their interface is a little more elegant. The 2 sites complement each other nicely.

By: owhydididoit

owhydididoit — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 19:59:53 -0800

wow, cool link Steven C. thanks!

By: longsleeves

longsleeves — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 20:23:39 -0800

Thanks for this, Steven C. This is what mefi is for. A keeper for sure.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 23:01:32 -0800

Very nice site, Steven C. Den Beste. I'm so happy it's nice and seismically quiet downunder.

By: magullo

magullo — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 04:16:46 -0800

This other site plots the same data using the Google Maps Api

By: The Bishop of Turkey

The Bishop of Turkey — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:39:17 -0800

And if you look here you can find kml files to load up in Google Earth.

By: dreamsign

dreamsign — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 23:09:49 -0800

This thing be glued to my desktop.