New Real-Time Earthquake Maps

It's been quite a twenty-four lx minutes menstruum for large earthquake news, amongst ii large earthquakes (magnitude 5.3 & 5.1) to a greater extent than or less the Bárðarbunga volcano inwards Republic of Iceland in addition to an earthquake of 6.1 magnitude near American Canyon inwards California.

Perhaps unsurprisingly the USGS provides i of the best to a greater extent than or less real-time maps of earthquake activity. The Latest Earthquakes Map provides yous amongst a set out of options to stance earthquake action over the final 24 hours, the final calendar week or the final month.

The map equally good allows yous to overlay plate boundaries in addition to U.S. error lines on the map.

The Ö-Files - Live Earthquake Map uses Google Maps in addition to the Simile Timeline amongst a set out of information sources to equally good render a alive map of earthquake action to a greater extent than or less the world.

The map is updated every 5 minutes to demo the latest reported earthquake in addition to yous tin role the time-line to explore earthquakes over the final vii days. It is equally good possible to refine the results shown on the map based on the dissimilar information sources.

Another root for the latest earthquake action is Stanford University's Quake-Catcher Network. The Quake-Catcher Network links participating laptops into a unmarried coordinated network to disclose in addition to analyze earthquake activity.

Many laptops these days are built amongst accelerometers that are designed to protect your difficult elbow grease from damage. The accelerometer detects precipitous displace in addition to tin switch the difficult elbow grease off then that the heads don't crash on the platters. The Quake-Catcher Network realized that they could exercise the world’s largest in addition to densest earthquake monitoring arrangement only past times using the information from accelerometers inwards the world's laptop computers.

QCN uses Google Maps to demo the information collected from participating laptops in addition to from participating desktop computers amongst USB sensors. The map equally good shows the latest USGS reported earthquakes.