The Earthquake Explorer application was developed at GFZ to provide rapid information on recent earthquakes worldwide as well as earlier earthquakes back to August 2007. It combines a zoomable and configurable map overview of activity with a highly customizable filter with more detailed information on dedicated pages for each event.
Currently included are:
(1) Location and magnitude estimates. First automatic estimates are usually available a few minutes after the origin time, with a subset of events later reviewed manually.
(2) Moment tensor solutions (for larger events only). Currently these are all manually reviewed. They improve the understanding of earthquakes because they are a direct snapshot of the deformation of the surrounding rock by the seismicity.
(3) Predicted shake maps (predicted ground motion) for each event based on event parameters and an estimate of the tectonic environment.
Additional information about recent events will be included in future developments of the Earthquake Explorer platform.
The Earthquake Explorer is open-source, and uses the Data Analytics Software Framework (DASF).