When earthquakes occur, tools like Google Earth can be very helpful for visualizing the affected areas and working to help those in need of assistance. Relief organizations use Google Earth and ...

In 2011, Maps and Earth cataloged the massive earthquake in Japan, local businesses and museums joined Street View, and Maps went inside buildings to help you get your bearings in airports ...

Next is this Google Gadget, which uses the Google Earth plug-in to show real-time earthquake information world-wide. Next is a map showing earthquake-related Tweets from Japan .

The US Geological Survey and Google are now making global earthquake data available in Google Earth as one of the layers under “Places of Interest.”. According to the USGS: USGS and Google ...

Just before 5 p.m. on Wednesday, January 13, a magnitude-7 earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, Haiti, flattening hundreds of buildings and killing as many as 100,000 people.

Google Maps may map the Earth's surface, ... Literally deeper. Using 10 years’ worth of data from 480 earthquakes that was processed using supercomputers, ...

Google is adding tools to Google Maps and search to help you survive a natural disaster. When a hurricane, flood or earthquake affects your area, you may want to get of town as quickly as possible.

Both Google Maps and Bing Maps offer ways to see the devastation caused by the earthquake in Haiti. Below, a look at how to see before and after images, taken by satellite. Plus, several 360 ...

Google has been working to develop a better map of Haiti through its crowd sourced Map Maker application ever since the country was hit by hurricanes Gustav and Ike last fall.

Google Maps will show you earthquake epicenters and crisis navigation The search giant wants Maps to be a go-to information hub during a natural disaster. Richard Nieva Former senior reporter.

Google Maps Japan earthquake 1. ... The images, which come from GeoEye and were taken within the past month or so, are available now in Google Maps and Google Earth.