Most earthquake prone areas by depth (since 1965)

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Most earthquake prone areas by depth (since 1965)

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Last edited Oct 14, 2020

Created on Oct 14, 2020

This visualization displays earthquake-prone areas worldwide since 1965, with each firebrick circle sized proportionally to earthquake depth using a square-root scale. The map uses a Natural Earth projection rendered through React and d3.geoPath, featuring land masses, country interiors, graticules, and a sphere background. Earthquake data, preprocessed from a Kaggle dataset, is loaded via d3.csv, while country boundaries come from World Atlas TopoJSON, processed with topojson’s feature and mesh functions. Circle opacity and size emphasize depth variations across regions.

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A world map showing the most earthquake prone areaas by the depth of the earthquake constructed using the vega-lite-api. The pre-processed Significant Earthquakes from 1965 dataset has been used for this visualization. This dataset contains information of earthquakes all over the world that took place from 1965. Dataset obtained from Kaggle. Country boundaries from World Atlas TopoJSON, polished for visual style, including graticules.

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