24 8 / 2011
USGS Bay Area Earthquake Map
When I was in 4th grade, I spent several minutes on the phone each day calling the USGS earthquake hotline and recording the magnitude and location of California earthquakes. Now, they have the internet for that kind of thing, rendering my homemade school project California earthquake map an artifact of elementary school that today’s children will likely never know.
This one shows the location of last night’s 3.6 magnitude quake in the east bay (we needed our own, after all, to show up the east coast). The USGS site is updated almost as quickly as Twitter after quakes.
And, as a bonus, you can tell the USGS how the earthquake felt to you:
