Picturing the Earthquake from afar

AuthorByron 09 September 2010 Comments

Paul Nicholls of the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, has animated every earthquake in Christchurch since Saturday morning.

For anybody not quite sure how unnerving it must be to live in Christchurch over the last week, refer to Paul Nicholls's Christchurch Quake Map, which visualises the recorded earthquakes since Saturday morning, graphically represented by location, magnitude and time.

"The Christchurch Quake Map on this website aims to present a time-lapse visualisation of the earthquake and its aftershocks, primarily to help those outside the affected area understand what those of us in Canterbury are experiencing. It plots earthquake data from GeoNet on a map using the Google Maps API, with the size of the circle denoting the magnitude (the higher the magnitude, the larger the circle) and the colour showing the focal depth (see the legend below the map)."

It's difficult to fathom just how unsettling it must be, but we thank Nicholls for providing some insight to those further abroad.

Visit the Quake Map HERE.