chakrakan / quake-detect

🌎☢️ Working with the Processing library and UnfoldingMaps library to create a medium sized Java Applet to display a range of data about earthquakes

Quake Detect

An app made using Java, Processing, and the UnfoldingMaps library to generate a live view of earthquakes around the world, in real time!

The application notably leverages PApplet from the Processing library, a lot of other classes and methods to draw items on screen, while also heavily utilizing the UnfoldingMaps library to display a live map view. Under the hood, the application fetches live earthquake data from USGS earthquake data, city/country data from the WorldBankOpenData database and combines the two to display a map using Microsoft's AerialProvider to display past/live earthquakes happening around the world. It also displays information for cities, and can show the number of earthquakes that occured near a given city either recently, or in the past.

This repository also contains all starter and implemented code for the Object Oriented Programming in Java course offered by UC San Diego through Coursera.

The main program can be found in module 6 while the rest of the modules consist of building towards it, and some other apps built/demo'd as part of learning.

Installation

Import this folder in Eclipse ('File' -> 'Import' -> 'Existing Projects into Workspace', Select this folder, 'Finish')

Manual Install

If the import does not work follow the steps below.

• Create new Java project
• Copy+Paste all files into project
• Add all lib/*.jars to build path
• Set native library location for jogl.jar. Choose appropriate folder for your OS.
• Add data/ as src

Troubleshooting

Switch Java Compiler to 1.8 if you get VM problems. (Processing should work with Java 1.6, 1.7 and 1.8)

I used jdk1.8.0_261 along with its JRE to compile and work through all the projects and assignments.

Other notable apps

App	Demo
2D Sun Changing color based on time of day
WorldMap with life expectancy using WorldBankOpenData