since Febrary 27th 2010
Latest Earthquakes in Chile

The 2010 Chilean earthquake occurred off the coast of the Maule Region of Chile on February 27, 2010, at 03:34 local time (06:34 UTC), rating a magnitude of 8.8 on the moment magnitude scale and lasting about three minutes.

This graphic shows all earthquakes in Chile from 27th of Febrary 27 to 5th of March. Move the mouse over a circle to see location and magnitude of the earthquake. Magnitudes 6 and above are in red.

Process

Here is the script based on PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser I used to parse the original data source from U.S. Geological Survey.

The visualization is based on Protovis Visualization Toolkit and the map is courtesy of Wikipedia


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