That said, mobile apps don't do much when you want to get a sense of the big picture (because why would they?). That's what makes this TRAVIC map interesting -- at least for us urban nerds.

This animated map created from the NOAA, NWS, and PTWC shows every recorded earthquake in chronological order from January 1, 2001 to December 31, 2015.

The map above is a screen grab from an animated wind map. If you go to the site hint.fm/wind, you will see that the lines move in the direction of the wind, and the speed of the moving lines ...

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