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California Earthquake Map

I love maps. I find it really cool when real time information can be put on a map. Yahoo! Pipes has an interesting location extractor module that will search an RSS feed for location information and present it as a pin on the map. Tonight I was experimenting with USGS Earthquake RSS feeds. Below is a map filtered to present only quakes in California. This is based on the feed so anytime you visit this page it will pull the latest updates from USGS.

I have made the Pipe public if you want to check it out or modify it. It is available here: http://pipes.yahoo.com/techlifeweb/caquakes Let me know if you do anything interesting with it.

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2 Responses to “California Earthquake Map”

  1. Nice job Scott. That’s awesome work. I love it.

  2. Nice pipe, Scott. I just created @latimesquakes with it, looking to add in more text feeds from regions relevant to Southern California, ie Baja California and Nevada — anyone have suggestions for a quick and reliable way to convert email alerts to and RSS feed?

    Sincerely,
    ~ @latimesnystrom
    social media guy embedded in the LA Times / latimes.com newsroom

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