What is QuakeShakes? Quakeshakes shows you recent worldwide earthquake activity and displays them on a map with info on location, date, time and size. Earthquakes of various magnitudes are displayed with different colored dots. This gives you a dramatic visual record of the seismic activity on the planet during the past 24 hours or week. Quakeshakes gets a live feed from the USGS website which is linked to a worldwide network of seismic sensors which updates every 30 minutes. A giant 8.2 earthquake rocks China and chances are you'll know about before it hits the news.

Your own desktop monitoring system Turn your home computer into a seismic monitoring station. Get live data on the many earthquakes that hit the planet daily as they happen. Or you can review the quakes from the previous week, revealing the volatility of the earth surface.

The Ideal Educational Tool But Quakeshakes is much more than a static monitoring station. Quakeshakes combines spectacular imagery with a whole new level of interactivity. Explore the land features, the ocean floor and the earth's plate boundaries. See for yourself where and how earthquakes occur. Quakeshakes gives you many options to choose from. Customize your map views. Choose from different land cover sets such as NASA's famous Blue Marble earth imagery. Or choose between elevation levels giving you different 3D effects. Quakeshakes is an ideal educational tool. Perfect for classroom labs. Great for students at home wanting a as a learning supplement in earth science.

To the download page Check out the demo version of Quakesahkes here.. We are workimg to get the commercial version of Quakeshakes availanle soon. We are working to get the commercial version of Quakeshakes available soon. In the meantime if you got questions or suggestions on features you would like to contact us. QuakeShakes was created with Adobe AIR, the next generation of innovative application development, and is fully compatible with Windows and Macs.