The USGS is responsible for providing scientific data about natural hazards, the health of our ecosystems and environment; and the impacts of climate and land-use change. Their scientists develop new methods and tools to supply timely, relevant, and useful information about the Earth and its processes.
I have built a new set of tools that visualized earthquake data. The USGS collects a massive amount of data from all over the world each day, but they lack a meaningful way of displaying it. Visualizing this data will allow them to better educate the public and other government organizations (and hopefully secure more funding..) on issues facing our planet.
The first task was to visualize an earthquake data set.
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Data Set
The USGS provides earthquake data in a number of different formats, updated every 5 minutes. Visited the USGS GeoJSON Feed page and picked the 30 day data set to visualize.
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Imported & Visualized the Data
Created a map using Leaflet that plots all of the earthquakes from the data set based on their longitude and latitude.
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Data markers reflect the magnitude of the earthquake in their size and color. Earthquakes with higher magnitudes should appear larger and darker in color.
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Included popups that provide additional information about the earthquake when a marker is clicked.
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Created a legend to provide context for map data.
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