John revealed on the IDV blog: ‘I’ve been looking at really general sources of existential risk and visualizing them via the kitchen sink school of thematic mapping. So the earthquakes map was just a matter of time.
‘Here, data from NCEDC.org and the USGS and UC Berkeley have been sliced out into veneers based on magnitude, then glued onto and image that began it’s life at Nasa’s Visual Earth and wrung into the Times projection (centered at the interesting bits).