The NEIC is a division of the U.S. Geological Survey. Every time the Locator is accessed it retrieves data about recent earthquakes and thus information is available on any earthquake within hours of it taking place.
Maps are provided to show the location of an earthquake anywhere is the world.
An individual earthquake location can be displayed, or all of the earthquakes which have occurred recently can be shown on a world map. All maps can be saved from your Web Browser, or printed, for later use. Earthquakes can be enormously destructive, yet they happen much more regularly than most people imagine. Please bear in mind that the map production process can be slow at certain times of the day, because the internet links to the U.S. become overloaded. Bruce M. Gittings, Edinburgh.