Richard Leeke was lucky enough to be in Seattle attending the 2010 Tableau Customer Conference when the Christchurch earthquake struck New Zealand. When he arrived home, he found a database of earthquakes in New Zealand from 1970 to the present and used it to create this viz. Click around and explore, especially the postcode/radius filters.
About this Viz
Don't forget to use the tabs- there is a bunch of interactivity hidden behind the first page!
Statistic charts on the web should really be interactive. Until Tableau Public, that had never been easy. But now, I have a tool with which I can explain large and complex datasets in a clear, simple and engaging way.