Fetching and plotting earthquakes from the USGS feed.
This Java application fetches earthquake data from the USGS website and puts the earthquakes on a map. The background imagery-composite of the map is delivered by the provider of Microsoft. The size and color of each marker reflects the magnitude of the earthquake represented. To prevent the map from being overloaded, a minimum threshold for the magnitude of the earthquakes shown can be set (by default set to 2.5).
Download the EarthquakeVisualizer.jar file and launch it as a normal application (tested on OSX and Windows). Alternatively download the src and lib folder and import it as a project in eclipse.
Start the programm and explore Earth's earthquake activity of the last week. By hovering over earthquakes additional information (place description, time and date) pops up, clicking on the map shows the current coordinates of the cursor in decimal degrees (WGS84). The map gets reloaded every 5 minutes.
- Fork it!
- Create your feature branch:
git checkout -b my-new-feature - Commit your changes:
git commit -am 'Add some feature' - Push to the branch:
git push origin my-new-feature - Submit a pull request :D
- Merlin Unterfinger - munterfi
- eclipse - Integrated development environment (IDE) used
- JDK 8 - Java SE Development Kit 8
- unfolding - Used to create interactive maps and geovisualizations in Java
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details