USGS Earthquake Mapping (JavaScript)

The United States Geological Survey, or USGS for short, is responsible for providing scientific data about natural hazards, the health of our ecosystems and environment, and the impacts of climate and land-use change. Their scientists develop new methods and tools to supply timely, relevant, and useful information about the Earth and its processes.

The USGS is interested in building a new set of tools that will allow them to visualize their earthquake data. They collect a massive amount of data from all over the world each day, but they lack a meaningful way of displaying it. In this challenge, you have been tasked with developing a way to visualize USGS data that will allow them to better educate the public and other government organizations (and hopefully secure more funding) on issues facing our planet.

• Developed a visualization tool for earthquake data in collaboration with the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
• Utilized Leaflet, a JavaScript library for interactive maps, to plot earthquake data based on longitude and latitude coordinates.
• Employed JSON data provided by USGS GeoJSON Feed, updating every 5 minutes, to dynamically populate the map with real-time earthquake occurrences.
• Implemented dynamic marker sizing and coloring to represent earthquake magnitude and depth respectively, enhancing visual understanding.
• Incorporated interactive popups to display additional information about each earthquake when its marker is clicked, improving user engagement and comprehension.
• Designed a custom legend to provide contextual information about earthquake magnitude and depth ranges, enhancing interpretability of the visualization.
• Contributed to the USGS mission of providing timely, relevant, and useful information about natural hazards and Earth processes, with potential implications for public education and government decision-making.