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Three ways to view a good shaker

Well, we were sitting around this evening wondering what our first post for 2009 would be, when the answer came in the form of a little roller coaster ride, thanks to an earthquake whose epicenter was just 6 miles from ESRI. We've covered earthquakes Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:24 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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The shakedown on the ShakeOut

Yesterday nearly 5 million Californians living near the San Andreas fault participated in an earthquake disaster preparedness drill called the ShakeOut, which we mentioned in our post yesterday. The earthquake scenario included a 7.8-magnitude earthquake Read More...
Posted Friday, November 14, 2008 2:56 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

The Great California ShakeOut

Today at 10:00 a.m. PST marked the official beginning of the Great California ShakeOut. According to the Great Southern California ShakeOut site site the event will bring together millions of people throughout Southern California in the ShakeOut drill, Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 13, 2008 8:37 AM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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Timely information via GeoRSS - Sneak peek at Explorer 480

Cyclones in Myanmar. Fires in Florida. Earthquakes in China. Timely information is critical for learning about events as they happen, and subsequently how to respond and what to do in their aftermath. One of the ways that timely geographic information Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008 1:20 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

A Ringside Seat to Plate Tectonics in Action

Just about 15 minutes ago, as the Explorer team was winding down from a series of meetings this week in a 3rd floor conference room, we felt the building shake - an earthquake! This was a relatively minor one, only a 3.1 according to the USGS, but it Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 08, 2008 5:14 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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Exploring a Midwest Earthquake Zone - Continued..

Last week we blogged about the first two parts of a four-part post on exploring the New Madrid seismic zone with ArcGIS Explorer. The final two chapters of the post have been completed, and are posted on the ESRI GIS Education Community blog . Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 5:01 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

Exploring a Midwest Earthquake Zone with Explorer

Part 1 and Part 2 of a four-part blog post featuring the use of ArcGIS Explorer for taking a closer look at the New Madrid Seismic Zone have been published on ESRI's GIS Education Community Blog . Posted by George Dailey, ESRI Education Manager, it's Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 23, 2008 9:13 AM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

Taking a Look at Earthquakes (in many different ways)

This morning a 5.2 quake hit Illinois, shaking a large part of the Midwest, with many aftershocks following the main temblor. The quake was believed by USGS scientists to have involved the Wabash fault, an extension of the New Madrid fault . That fault Read More...
Posted Friday, April 18, 2008 11:27 AM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments