https://github.com/arosas17/mapping_earthquakes

Created a map to demonstrate the correlation between the tectonic plates and earthquakes. Circle were made on a map to indicate earthquakes, changing colors and size based on magnitude of the earthquake.
https://github.com/arosas17/mapping_earthquakes

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Created a map to demonstrate the correlation between the tectonic plates and earthquakes. Circle were made on a map to indicate earthquakes, changing colors and size based on magnitude of the earthquake.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/arosas17/mapping_earthquakes
• Owner: arosas17
• Created: 2022-09-16T19:54:07.000Z (about 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-02-08T10:37:09.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-12-24T08:30:57.987Z (11 months ago)
• Topics: data-visualization, javascript, map
• Language: JavaScript
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• Size: 1.61 MB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Mapping Earthquakes

## Goal and Findings

This task was performed to give visual the relationship between tectonic plates and earthquake data. Through the data shown on the map, it is observed that earthquakes tend to stay by the tectonic plates but the earthquakes that stray from them tend to be minor.

## Overview

In an attempt to see the connection between the tectonic plates and earthquakes, we created a map that allows overlays of the earthquake and tectonic plates data. There is also a need to add in an overlay for only the major earthquakes with a magnitude greater than 4.5 so that major earthquakes can get a better visual. In addition to these data that need to added, map styles were also added to create options of visual appearances that may be suited best to show the data.

## Results

  

In the images above, it shows two of the different styles of map box styles that was added to the map that may be selected. In addition to this, these maps show the tectonic plate data and earthquake data was added correctly as an overlay so that the sizes and colors of the circles correlates to the magnitude of the earthquakes.

## Summary

Through the imagery of the maps created, we are able to see a direct correlation between the tectonic plates and earthquakes. The earthquakes not only tend to be more frequent nearing the tectonic plates but also more likely to be large earthquakes. Although earthquakes do appear away from the tectonic plates, they are rarer and mostly minor. Something else that may be instresting that may be worth looking into is why certain earthquakes away from the tectonic plates occur frequently in certain places; an example of this would be the earthquakes over the border of Texas in the images of the maps above.