Infographics: Timeline of Japan Earthquakes
Posted on March 15th, 2011 by GD
Click on the word Play under this interactive map to watch depictions of seismic activity in Japan before and after March 11.
Ken Schwencke and Thomas Suh Lauder of the Los Angeles Times prepared this mashup from USGS data.
It’s odd that watching these graphic depictions of Richter scale numbers can cause the heart to beat faster, something that might not happen if we were to read the data in a simple table. Is it the motion that causes this?
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