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Thursday, May 6, 2021

50 Years Of Volcanic Eruptions & Earthquakes


The Global Volcanism Program at the Smithsonian National Museum has released a novel interactive map showing over fifty years of volcanic in addition to earthquake activeness roughly the world. The Eruptions, Earthquakes in addition to Emissions map too shows volcanic gas emissions (sulfur dioxide, SO2) since 1978.

As the map animation plays through the years bluish dots demo potent earthquakes (with a magnitude of five in addition to above). Red triangles betoken the locations of volcanic eruptions. You tin hover over private markers on the map to thought the engagement in addition to scale of the eruption or earthquake. You tin too click through to thought to a greater extent than details on the USGS in addition to Smithsonian Global Volcanism websites.

The map includes filters which let yous to but thought earthquakes, volcanoes or sulfur dioxide emissions. If yous desire to encounter all activeness since 1960 on the map at the same fourth dimension in addition to then but click on the 'All Events' push at the bottom of the map,