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Section from today's M7.3 earthquake in the Tonga region at 2022-11-11 10:48:45UTC recorded on the worldwide
network. See: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquake. Uses and .

@wmvanstone im not a seismoplogist, but i had a good science teacher in school so I understand the basic ideas... That said while ive seen the part of the chart in the upper right I have never seen this type of chart before. After looking at it I think I under stand it just fine and think this is crazy cool! Thanks for that share.

@freemo at well as downloading and playing with , which is highly recommended, you can see professionally produced versions of this plot, using more seismometers at here: ds.iris.edu/spud/eventplot/206 and lots of further information from them here: ds.iris.edu/ds/nodes/dmc/tools. My plot uses citizen science data collected from many private seismometers across the globe.

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