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Latest Earthquakes - Past 7 days (100 days also)

giasen Nov 20, 2007 12:33 PM
Posted in group: Dynamic Data Layers


(Bottom link for last 100 days, sorry for the confusion)

Latest Earthquakes Magnitude 2.5 or Greater in the United States and Adjacent Area sand Magnitude 4.0 or Greater in the Rest of the World - Last 7 days (see following post for last 100)

The source is USGS ---> http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.php

They have some other good KML files that they made themselves but I didn't find any that were 'animated' so I made this. I'm not sure how to automate it though.

ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE looks a little bumpy lately.

I did give the points a height value based on magnitude but even after I assigned 1000 meters of height to each point of magnitude, it just doesn't seem to make much difference and I stopped caring. Richter scale 2.5-3.8 is green, 3.9-5.4 is yellow, and 5.5-7.7 is red.

UPDATE: Last 100 days ---> http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/download.php?Number=1138799