SeismographThe Rapid Earthquake Viewer (REV) gives you access to information from seismograph stations around the globe. REV displays the earth and posts details about current earthquakes so you’ll be able to see where they happened and examine the seismograms from world seismograph stations for each notable earthquake REV even enables you to inspect seismograph stations in your area, so if you assume you felt the bottom shake, check REV!

As with many megaquakes, the exact casualties are unknown, but estimates are as a lot as 70,000. The nice quake leveled towns and villages, then tsunamis scoured the coasts, fully obliterating the port of Arica. Heavy freighters and warships had been flung onto the shore. Tsunamis prompted flooding and harm in Hawaii, and New Zealand took a hard hit from this one, damaging properties and harbors. Amazingly, the tsunami waves seem to have continued disturbing New Zealand for a number of … Read the rest

Earth ViewEARTHRISE: When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin touched down on the moon in July 1969, they turned the primary humans to view Earth from the floor of another celestial physique. This image, taken through the Apollo 11 mission, exhibits what Armstrong and Aldrin’s dwelling planet, some 400,000 kilometers away, should have looked like.

Hoping iOS 6 Maps app can substitute this as GE has been an abomination because it got here out. I just needed it for access to reviews, one thing in every version of Google Maps EXCEPT the iOS model (sure even dumbphone/featurephone JAR/midp verions). As a prelude to my third paragraph, my next paragraph simply incorporates some other issues which might be necessary for the third paragraph to return to fruition.

The Madurodam is a complete miniaturized metropolis, airport, canal, and railroad. All buildings are 1:25 scale, most are replicas of real places in the Netherlands, and … Read the rest