January 19, 2016
As per my final project, I have decided to work on a project that provides visualisation of earthquakes happening in the world in real time. The idea is to basically give a sense of how frequently earthquakes take place around the world, and which places are affected generally.
The idea is to create visualisation similar like this from Google, but create it from scratch using p5 Js library with more features added to it.
Link: https://developers.google.com/maps/tutorials/visualizing/earthquakes
Besides Google, this has also been done in a couple of websites at present. But they are not yet visually appealing as they could be made. Hence, my objective for the final project is to make it as much beautiful as possible.
Links to other projects that has achieved real-time earthquake visualisation:
http://maps.ramiro.org/map/earthquakes/
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
In order to accomplish this, I would be making use of a public database created by Firebase that provides real time earthquake updates around the world. According to Firebase, this database is dependent upon United States Geological Survey (USGS) database for its data.
https://www.firebase.com/docs/open-data/earthquakes.html
I have already found the base image (world map) over which I would add other layers.
The next step would probably be to map the latitude and longitude of the earthquake from the data into the image, which is a little bit trickier.