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Earthquake Detector

See seismic activity unfold in real time and understand event context faster.

Use the live feed, event ranking, and hotspot context together. Start with current severity, then inspect clustering, recent acceleration, and any reinforcing space-weather signals before escalating.

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Primary decision

Which seismic events or clusters deserve immediate analyst review?

Built for

  • resilience teams
  • risk analysts
  • situation rooms

Outputs

  • ranked event feed
  • live seismic map
  • cluster and hotspot context

Data footprint

  • USGS earthquake feeds
  • NOAA SWPC nowcast proxy
  • OpenStreetMap basemap layers

Earthquake Intelligence Platform

Real-time seismic monitoring with space weather correlation, predictive hotspot modeling, and comprehensive geological intelligence.

Live Seismic Data
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🌍Seismic Monitoring & Prediction Controls

🗺️Global Seismic Activity Map

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🔬How It Works - Seismic Intelligence

📡Real-time Seismic Monitoring

Integrates live earthquake data from USGS global seismic network, processing magnitude, location, depth, and temporal patterns for comprehensive analysis.

USGS GeoJSON: Real-time global earthquakes
Update Rate: Continuous streaming
Coverage: M0.1+ events worldwide
  • • Magnitude-based color coding and sizing
  • • Depth categorization (shallow/intermediate/deep)
  • • Interactive heat mapping with intensity weighting

🌌Space Weather Correlation

Correlates seismic activity with space weather parameters including Kp index, interplanetary magnetic field, and solar wind velocity for enhanced predictions.

space_factor = (kp_norm + bz_norm + v_norm) / 3
Weighted correlation with seismic intensity patterns
  • • NOAA SWPC real-time space weather data
  • • Magnetic field perturbation tracking
  • • Solar wind velocity impact modeling

🎯Predictive Hotspot Modeling

Combines historical seismic patterns with space weather indicators to identify potential earthquake hotspots with probabilistic confidence intervals.

Clustering: Geographic binning by 5° grid
Weighting: Magnitude-based intensity scoring
Enhancement: Space weather boost up to 40%
  • • Historical pattern recognition
  • • Temporal decay modeling for recency bias
  • • Probabilistic risk assessment visualization

⚙️How to use and interpret this view

Real-time Data Processing

  • • React 18 with optimized client components
  • • Leaflet.js with heat layer extension
  • • Canvas-based rendering for performance
  • • Dynamic data fetching with progress tracking

Analytics & Visualization

  • • Gutenberg-Richter energy calculations
  • • Interactive magnitude distribution charts
  • • Regional activity clustering algorithms
  • • Accessibility-compliant controls and navigation

📋Data Sources & Important Notice

Primary Data Sources

USGS Earthquake Hazards:Real-time
NOAA Space Weather:1-minute cadence
OpenStreetMap Tiles:Cached

Important Disclaimer

This tool provides educational visualization and probabilistic analysis of seismic activity. It does not predict earthquakes with deterministic accuracy and should not be used for safety decisions or emergency planning. Always rely on official geological surveys and emergency services for authoritative earthquake information and safety guidance.

Operating brief

Use this like a real decision surface, not a static demo

Use the live feed, event ranking, and hotspot context together. Start with current severity, then inspect clustering, recent acceleration, and any reinforcing space-weather signals before escalating.

  • Brief leadership on fast-moving seismic developments without context switching
  • Support OSINT and incident-response teams with a rapid first-look dashboard
  • Track geographic clustering before moving into deeper geologic review

Outputs

  • ranked event feed
  • live seismic map
  • cluster and hotspot context

Source inputs

  • USGS earthquake feeds
  • NOAA SWPC nowcast proxy
  • OpenStreetMap basemap layers

Interactive tools designed and built by Terry Chen

Each tool in this section is part of Terry Chen's public portfolio. Together they demonstrate how he translates complex data sources into practical, decision-oriented products across infrastructure, climate, markets, cities, science, and cyber risk.

  • Earthquake Detector: Real-time earthquake monitoring with space-weather context and event replay. This tool demonstrates geospatial risk monitoring, scientific interfaces, and anomaly detection and reinforces Terry Chen's position as a cross-domain builder working across environmental intelligence, market analytics, civic systems, cybersecurity, and research discovery.
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  • Star to Street Skywatch: Correlate light pollution and aurora visibility with space weather, clouds, and urban lighting proxies. This tool demonstrates space-weather analysis, environmental visualization, and exploratory data products and reinforces Terry Chen's position as a cross-domain builder working across environmental intelligence, market analytics, civic systems, cybersecurity, and research discovery.
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  • Air Quality Watchlist: Compare live AQI baselines across major cities using a consistent forecast source and PM2.5 context. This tool demonstrates air-quality monitoring, comparative city intelligence, and health-oriented dashboard design and reinforces Terry Chen's position as a cross-domain builder working across environmental intelligence, market analytics, civic systems, cybersecurity, and research discovery.
  • City Service Heat: Blend 311 requests, crime incidents, and closures into an anomaly lens with privacy-aware binning. This tool demonstrates urban operations, privacy-aware analytics, and civic systems monitoring and reinforces Terry Chen's position as a cross-domain builder working across environmental intelligence, market analytics, civic systems, cybersecurity, and research discovery.
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  • Trial Site Matcher: Search live studies by condition, then identify sponsor concentration, phase mix, and repeated locations quickly. This tool demonstrates clinical intelligence, study landscape scanning, and evidence-oriented health interfaces and reinforces Terry Chen's position as a cross-domain builder working across environmental intelligence, market analytics, civic systems, cybersecurity, and research discovery.
  • Science in the Moment: Live discovery feed of new papers and their citation context, with topic maps and influence trails. This tool demonstrates research intelligence, bibliometrics, and knowledge discovery interfaces and reinforces Terry Chen's position as a cross-domain builder working across environmental intelligence, market analytics, civic systems, cybersecurity, and research discovery.
  • Research Frontier Radar: Scan a scientific frontier live to surface the strongest venues, topics, and papers worth opening next. This tool demonstrates research discovery, frontier scanning, and scholarly signal interpretation and reinforces Terry Chen's position as a cross-domain builder working across environmental intelligence, market analytics, civic systems, cybersecurity, and research discovery.
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