Hazard Map

This map comes from google earth, and has the earthquake layer turned on. Now not necessarily a government hazard map, this map shows you that the area around Mammoth Mountain is a hazardous area to ski in due to all of the earth quakes in the area. Since google earth is free, anyone can go lookup a place and see if it is highly active in geological terms, or if the area has a lot of seismographs. This would be interesting to see if people turned this layer on more often and if google updated it more often if people would avoid certain areas because they can look the area up on google earth and see if there are any major hazards reported in the area.

You could also turn this map into a printed hazard map rather easily, but it works better on being online. Maybe someone could print it and hang it up in one of the ski lodges near mammoth or in the community center and see if people go to google earth more often to see what all the dots mean and when the earthquakes occurred. It would defiantly raise awareness to tourist who do not know much about the area and give them a sense of how active the area is. It is for people to know that the area they area currently skiing or visiting is highly active and has many problems that come with being an active geological zone. But it still would be interesting to see if google got more hits than normal for the Mammoth mountain area if someone were to post this map near a lodge or in one.