Pulse — Real-Time Global Seismic

Pulse — Real-Time Global Seismic Activity Category: Dashboard

Pulse is a live monitor of earthquake activity worldwide. Open it and the planet is already breathing — every recent quake rendered as an incandescent heatmap, streamed live from USGS. Drag the timeline scrubber to replay the last 30 days and watch seismic activity unfold as a film. Pulse auto-focuses on the most active zone, then opens a full analytical panel: how active the region is versus its baseline, cumulative energy released measured against Hiroshima, and a depth cross-section that reveals the tectonic plate diving beneath the surface — the dimension a flat map can't show, and the one that determines whether a quake is deadly or harmless.

An educational slider reframes each zone's geology from plain language for anyone to technical depth for an expert — the same phenomenon, two audiences, no jargon left behind. Logged-in users save regions to track.

Built on Bubble AI. A single prompt to Bubble's AI builder generated the foundation — data structure, page layout, navigation, and auth. On top of that base I built the live WebGL map (MapLibre + deck.gl), real-time USGS integration, the client-side analytics engine (energy, anomaly, depth distribution), and the bespoke 2D depth cross-section that detects subduction directly from the data.

Pulse is informational, not an official emergency source. Data: USGS.

Live app: https://pulse-20833.bubbleapps.io/version-test/