| barkergk |
| (First Post) |
| 06/15/08 12:04 PM |
Locating earthquakes by distance?
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Google Earth has a great tool for locating recent earthquakes, but for those of us who have seismometers in our classrooms that can allow students to calculate distance, but not direction to an earthquake, it would be nice to have a tool that would allow you to input a radial distance (miles, km, degrees etc) from your location and have it draw a circle on the globe with that radius.
Then students could see where the circle intersects plate boundaries and could predict the location of their recorded seismogram.
They already have a tool called "Ruler" that allows you to pull a line out from a location that shows distance, but you have to pull it around in a circle by hand and constantly hold it at the desired radial distance. It seems like a small addition to do what I described above.
How does one contact the folks at Google directly to offer such a suggestion to their programmers?
| Gerardo64 |
| (World Explorer) |
| 06/17/08 05:28 AM |
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Re: Locating earthquakes by distance?
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Hi barkergk
Not exactly what you want but very similar is this usefull tool created by James Stafford.
He called it PolyPlot and you can use it here.
You draw the circle (or other polygon) and get the distance in km.