Re: Question - just curious
Posted by Mike Williams in Arroyo Grande on August 02, 2009 at 07:21:18:

On the Old, "drab" map, down below the graphic, is a link titled " . . . including new CA-NV pages at - http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/latest.htm

If you follow that link you still get the old-style map, but now, at the top, is text and link reading "Other Maps: Recent earthquakes with fault and topographic information". If you click on that, voila! You get the topographic info.

Interestingly, if you go to http://quake.usgs.gov/ and then click on the "USA" choice under "Real Time Earthquake Maps", (toward upper left of the page), you get a national map which, if you click on California or Nevada brings up a page similar to our old-style Cal-Nev page in boundaries and legend - but the topographic coloration is much richer in color and more distinct than the other "new" map's. And the only faults shown are "Plate Boundaries", which, of course, is just the SAF. And you get roads.

Mike Williams


Follow Ups:
     ● new map, too - John Vidale  07:31:42 - 8/3/2009  (75660)  (1)
        ● Re: new map, too - Mike Williams in Arroyo Grande  07:04:04 - 8/4/2009  (75674)  (1)
           ● an OBS - John Vidale  10:59:14 - 8/4/2009  (75677)  (1)
              ● OBS = Offshore Buoy Seismometer?  - Mike Williams in Arroyo Grande  21:01:29 - 8/4/2009  (75680)  (1)
                 ● OBS = ocean bottom seismometer - John Vidale  23:03:33 - 8/4/2009  (75682)  (0)