New Google Earthquake search feature rocks!

Thursday, March 5, 2009

New Google Earthquake search feature rocks!

Earth shaking News from the Google Guy's: Great new near real time earthquake info via Google Earthquake search is the latest of Google's special search features...

Google earthquake searches

Google has tied into the US Geological Survey (USGS), feed - Earthquake data straight from the source and combined with Google Maps equals a very powerful information tool.
When you click on a specific earthquake map link Google opens a map at the longitude and latitude as reported by the USGS.

Now, when you search for "earthquakes" on Google, you'll get information on some of the most recent, significant earthquakes from around the world, right on the search results page. From there, you can click through to the USGS Earthquake Center for more information.
To find earthquakes closer to home, you can add a location to your query,
for example: "earthquakes California."

More Google search tricks: If you'd like to know the local time where an earthquake occurred, search for "time" followed by the location (for example, "time Japan"). Let's say the epicenter was 50km from the coast and you want to know how far that is in miles. Type "50km in miles" into the search box. You can find out about these special features and many more on the Google Search Features page- Link.

Info Source: Google Blog - Shaking up earthquake searches - Link http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/shaking-up-earthquake-searches.html

Google Search: Earthquakes in California

Recent earthquakes near California

Magnitude	Location	Time
3.1	Northern California	4 hours ago	Map
2.5	Northern California	4 hours ago	Map
2.8	Offshore Northern California	9 hours ago	Map

earthquake.usgs.gov

Recent Earthquakes in California and Nevada - Index Map

quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/ - 11k - Cached - Similar pages -

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Thursday, March 5, 2009