Brief description
Unites States Geological Survey has been monitoring earthquakes worldwide. Searches can be performed on world lists from magnitude 2.5/4+, and magnitude 5+. Earthquakes in the United States can be searched from magnitude 1 and above.World maps can be generated for:
* Africa
* Asia
* Australia
* Europe
* North America
* South America
* South Pacific
* West Hemisphere
* East Hemisphere
* North Hemisphere
* South Hemisphere
Maps for regional United States can be generated for:
* Alaska
* California/Nevada
* Central & Southeast
* Hawaii
* Long Valley
* Northeast
* Northwest
* Parkfield
* Puerto Rico
* Utah
* Yellowstone.
Scientific data, seismograms, earthquake animations, media information and links to Earthquake databases are displayed on this website.
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CreditU.S. Geological Survey
Created: 12 11 2008
text: westlimit=-180; southlimit=-80.00; eastlimit=-180; northlimit=80.00
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(Latest earthquakes in the World-Past 7 days)
uri :
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/
(Magnitude 5.2 South of the Kermadec Islands 20081110)
uri :
http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/neic_zfa2.html
(Joint Tsunami Early Warning Centre webpage)
uri :
http://www.bom.gov.au/tsunami/related_sites.shtml
(Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre webpage)
uri :
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/
(Geoscience Australia Earthquake Hazards and Neotechtonics Project webpage)
uri :
http://www.ga.gov.au/em/ehn.jsp
(World earthquake information by country/region)
uri :
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world/
(World seismicity maps)
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