Visualizing and Exploring a Year of Earthquakes
Visualizing and Exploring a Year of Earthquakes from Evan Peck on Vimeo.
This visualization tool allows a user to explore earthquakes that have occurred over the past year (from March 11, 2009 to March 11, 2010). The data is from USGS and is read through a .csv file.
The graph you will see at the bottom of the screen shows the number of earthquakes each day. During the course of this video, I zoom in on the earthquakes in Samoa (9/29), Haiti (1/12), and Chile (2/27). Each circle is around 20% opaque, so if an area exhibits a lot of activity, the overlapping circles will create a solid color that stands out.
This is part of a project for a visualization class at Tufts University. I am a PhD candidate in the HCI lab at Tufts researching brain-computer interfaces.
If you would like to explore this tool, please let me know and I’ll make the code publicly available.
Twitter: @EvanMPeck
Website: eecs.tufts.edu/~epeck02
Created with Processing: processing.org
Modest Maps port to Processing found and discussed here: bit.ly/cVG2zc
Data from USGS: earthquake.usgs.gov/
Maps are from Microsoft: microsoft.com/maps/
Song “Emptiness” from album “May“.