Near Real-Time Earthquake Plug-In

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(See the bottom of the page for a fix to the Historical Earthquake Query)

The Earthquake Plug-In is a set of pulg-ins for displaying where earthquakes have happened. 

NOTE: The earthquake plug-in is Shareware. A lot more time and work went into
 this code than what went into the XML version. So, I would appreciate a donation to
 help cover hosting costs and development tools.

The first of the new earthquake plug-ins is the USGS 7-Day RSS Display, this plug-in downloads the latest USGS RSS feed for earthquakes that have happened in the last seven days that are greater than 2.5 in magnitude.

The earthquake icons are clickable and take you to the related USGS web page for more information about the earthquake.

The color scheme is this:

Red   1-2 Days
Orange   3-4 days
Yellow   5+ days

The size is the magnitude, the more rings there are, the stronger the earthquake.

The second of the two earthquake plug-in is the USGS Historical Query Plug-In. With this plug-in you can query USGS earthquake data all the way back to 1973.

There are multiple query options that can be selected and fine tuned.

As you can see, you get some information on the query you have just performed. You get several different earthquake counts and a "Top 5" largest earthquakes that have happened within the specified time frame.

And your World Wind globe will look like the query results image.

The results are different than the RSS plug-in. The colors again relate to age and the size is related to the magnitude. But what is new is the shapes, the shapes are related to the depths the earthquakes happened.

Click here to download.

All earthquakes from 1973 to March 2006
All earthquakes from 1973 to March 2006
Historical query form
Historical query form
Historical query results
Historical query results
Query results
Query results
Icon legend
Icon legend

Fix for the Historical Earthquake Plug-In

  1. Open the file explorer and go to <Your Location You Installed World Wind>\Plugins\Earthquake2
  2. Open the file named Historical_Earthquake_2.0.2.2.cs
    1. Version number might be different
  3. Go down to line 1047 and look for the following (or just search for this line):
    1. string USGSUrl = "http://eqint.cr.usgs.gov/neic/cgi-bin/epic/epic.cgi?
  4. And replace it with the following:
    1. string USGSUrl = "http://neic.usgs.gov/cgi-bin/epic/epic.cgi?
  5. Save and start World Wind

That should fix the Earthquake Query plug-in then. If it does not, please let me know.

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