A world seismograph

Orbis

The tremors of a single turning day, inked where the ground moved.

Reading the earth…
Inking the last 24 hours onto the plate…
ring = magnitude · filled = shallow
the scarlet line is the reading needle
Tap a tremor, or set the world turning.

The Register

Every tremor above, largest first — press one to sound it.

Each mark is a real earthquake of magnitude 2.5 or greater from the last day, drawn where it struck and pulled live from the USGS feed. Bigger quakes are lower and longer, tuned to a minor-pentatonic scale, so any chord the earth strikes stays in tune; shallow quakes ring brighter than deep ones. Set the world turning and a needle sweeps west to east, sounding each tremor as it passes — the Pacific rim arrives as one crowded chord. Coastlines from Natural Earth (public domain).

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