/earthquake-data-visualisation

Use leaflet.js to visualise United States Geological Survey's Earthquake Data against Tectonic Plates

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Visualising Data with Leaflet - Data on earthquake and tectonic plates

Where is the data from?

  • The United States Geological Survey (USGS) provides earthquake data in a number of different formats, updated every 5 minutes. The earthquake data used is 'All Earthquakes from the Past 7 Days' from the USGS GeoJSON Feed.

  • A second data set on the map is to illustrate the relationship between tectonic plates and seismic activity. Data on tectonic plates can be found at https://github.com/fraxen/tectonicplates.

What did I do?

Level 1: Visualise an earthquake dataset

2-BasicMap

Create a map using Leaflet that plots all of the earthquakes from the earthquake data set based on their longitude and latitude.

  • The data circle markers reflect the magnitude of the earthquake in their size and color.

  • Include popups that provide additional information about the earthquake when a marker is clicked.

  • Create a legend that will provide context for the map data.

Level 2: With data on tetonic plates

5-Advanced

  • Plot a second data set on the map.

  • Add a number of base maps to choose from as well as separate out the two different data sets into overlays that can be turned on and off independently.

  • Add layer controls to the map.

Contact:

Email: thao.ph.ha@gmail.com