High-Level Project Summary
In this project, we updated the existing application quakehunter.Indeed, the application was limited to identifying on a globe the different occurrences of earthquakes and a global statistic that reports the number of earthquakes according to the magnitude.Now the application is able, for a precise city of the globe that the user enters, to make a histogram of the earthquake magnitudes according to the time. And for an area delimited by the user directly on the globe, the application returns a histogram of earthquake frequency as a function of their magnitudesThe application also returns a global statistic (a frequency histogram) of earthquakes as a function of some main causes.
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Detailed Project Description
After our work,
1-The application allows seeing in a tab 'GRAPHS' the histogram of the magnitudes in the function of the time on a precise place that the user would have entered.
2-The application also allows seeing displayed in the same tab a histogram that describes the number of earthquakes as a function of magnitudes on a delimited area (traced) by the user on the globe present on the interface.
3-The application also allows seeing a global statistic (histogram) of the occurrence of earthquakes in relation to some causes
Having reliable statistics on earthquakes allows us to make comparative studies and take decisions. These decisions in turn can save human lives, conserve useful equipment, pass protective legislation, and better choose building materials... You have understood that the benefits are immense.
Our goal is to collect and visualize a large amount of data to determine a correlation between past and future events. That is to say that we would like to be able to predict earthquakes thanks to artificial intelligence based on the collected data.
The main languages used in this project are javascript and PHP.
Space Agency Data
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/fdsnws/event/1/
Thanks to this API we have been able to get the necessary information about the earthquakes, retrieve them and make our statistics.
https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/quakehunter/
WorldWind is an open-source virtual globe API. It is essential for the proper functioning of quakehunter
https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/quakehunter/
It is this application that we have tried to update by adding features in the field of data analysis
https://www.openstreetmap.org/
This API allows us to retrieve the longitudes and latitudes of the cities entered by the users in order to request the information necessary for the realization of histograms
Hackathon Journey
The hackathon started a bit difficult because we had to choose between the three applications proposed by NASA. But it wasn't the choice itself that was difficult, it was rather knowing what to add that would be useful to each of these applications or even how to make them merge.
You can understand that the approach was to know where the addition of visualization or data analysis would be most useful.
We ended up choosing the quakehunter project, which we felt lacked the ability to show some possible statistics that could be useful.
The challenge was to add histograms of seismic events on a place or a whole region of the world according to their magnitude or certain causes and a statistic of the magnitudes according to time
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Tags
#quake #quakes #earth #data visualisation #vulcain