Volcano Widget

The plugin creates a customizeable interactive map with active volcanoes and current earthquakes worldwide. The map is loaded in an iframe and can be used as widget that can be placed in a sidebar of the layout. The map itself, which is being updated daily, contains interactive features:

• click on each earthquake to see details (depth, magnitude, time, source of data and link to detail info)
• submit a "I felt the earthquake" report straight from the earthquake list or the map
• click on each volcano to see more details (status, last activity, link to more info)
• access a list of latest volcano news The map display can be customized in may ways:
• display only earthquakes or only volcanoes or both
• select a geographic region / country from a list (e.g. Australia, British Isles, California, Germany)
• select a custom geographic region defined by W-E and N-S boundaries
• start with different zoom and geographical center
• filter to show only quakes larger than a given magnitude
• filter to show only volcanoes at a certain activity level
• show / hide various display controls

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

1. Upload VolcanoWidget.php to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
3. If desired, customize the map under 'Settings' -> 'Volcano Widget' (by default, earthquakes and volcanoes are shown worldwide)
4. Go to 'Design' -> 'Widgets' and drag the widget to any place in your layout, e.g. the right sidebar

1.0

• First release

1.1 Minor fix in javascript enlarge function: when returning to small map, the originally set width is restored 1.2 update to https