Sunday, January 25, 2009

Earthquake Heat Map

Posted by sunild

Update: An updated application which creates the heat map as a Google map overlay. Read about it here.

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) publishes data on recent earthquakes through various RSS feeds. I came across this recently when I thought I had felt an earthquake. This was a nice opportunity to do something with a heat map, I thought... So I made this mashup with Google Maps and the USGS data.

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I used a nice heat map component from Michael VanDaniker, the Google Maps Flash API, the AS3 MarkerManager, and Cairngorm. Using the Cairngorm framework was probably a little overkill for a small project like this... but at least it's ready to go if I want to add more functionality.

As usual, you can view the source by right clicking on the app. Click here, or the image above to launch the map.

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1 comments:

  1. this is something very interesting ,, fully agree heat can give advice of what is coming ,, could it be that heat increases along the known areas of earthquakes can lead to earth quakes forecast?? As I live in chile ,, this is very important. thanks
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