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This video shows just over 15 years worth of Earthquakes and Eruptions in Iceland since 1996. Dark colors indicate deep quakes, while bright colored ones are shallow. The size of the circles indicate the quake's magnitude.

Stars indicate eruptions.

At 24 frames per second and one day per frame, every second of this video shows the seismic activity for almost a month.

All in all the video shows 242,724 Earthquakes and 7 volcanic eruptions.

Work in progress. See also "Earthquakes and Eruptions in Iceland 2010" that focuses on the Eyjafjallajökull Eruption: vimeo.com/10708403

Made by datamarket.com/

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  • amoeba 8 months ago
    such an awesome data visualization
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  • Kristinn Gudmundsson plus 8 months ago
    I think it is good screen saver ;)
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  • Florida Images plus 8 months ago
    After seeing that, makes me wonder if there are good sensors all over the country? The locations seemed limited towards the ridge. Nice work though.
  • hjalli plus 8 months ago
    You are absolutely right. The earthquakes follow the fault lines quite accurately, and rightly so. That's where the Earth is ripping apart.

    However, you are also right that the sensor coverage is not uniform. In this blog post (in Icelandic) you'll see a map of the sensor grid in Iceland and how small quakes it can measure in each are. Larger quakes would never be missed, but the finer details will go unnoticed in the North-west: vulkan.blog.is/blog/vulkan/entry/1051312/
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