World Earthquake Visualization

Name: Faiz Abbasi

Number of Teammates Desired: 2

Description of Idea:
We all hear about devastating earthquakes every once in a while, just like any other catastrophic catastrophe. But earthquakes are constantly happening, albeit with negligible magnitudes. It would be interesting to create a visualization of those earthquakes from a live feed, that does not necessarily use a MapKit to visualize the data. Perhaps instead focusing more on Core Graphics or Quartz Core to visualize the data, something more thought-provoking could be reached. Perhaps the visualization can give a 3-dimensional look into the various earthquakes based on magnitude and depth, initially sorted by time of occurrence. The data can then be further sorted by location. Of course such a visualization would take a considerable amount of effort.

Description of Data:
The data would be taken from DATA.gov, which provides data regarding earthquakes from the past 7 days. The data includes the region, time, coordinate, magnitude and depth, among other attributes.