I’m going to start posting the stuff I fool around with in my spare time. These posts can be found in labs.gmtaz.com (see link at the top of the page as well).
Right now, I just posted a quick Chrome Experiment using the globe.js experiment code. This experiment is called “Quake” and pulls in earthquake data, updating every minute or so from mangolabs.com.
It works in the latests versions of Chrome and Firefox or any browser that supports WebGL.
Very cool. One comment: It looks like your data is from the USGS site and that makes a big bias. Looking at the map it looks like CA and AK have a greater number of earthquakes than any other place on Earth. Of course that is incorrect, but the USGS site reports earthquake in the US of magnitudes 1.0 and up while globally it only reports EQs of magnitude 4.5 and above… thus the apparent bias. If the data can be filtered your globe would appear more accurate.
Unfortunately, I pull my data from my brother-in-laws earthquake site and he pulls his data directly from USGS.
Are there other earthquake monitoring solutions out there that have publicly accessible API’s?
If so, I would love to try to grab that data and then import it as well…