evidence: On 14 November 2016 at just after midnight local time a major earthquake struck in the North Canterbury region of New Zealand. This isn’t surprising as the country sits on the boundary of the Australian and Pacific tectonic plates, part of the Earth’s crust, and it has a long history of earthquake activity. Some of the impacts of this 7.8 magnitude quake make amazing reading. Scientists have estimated that the two biggest land masses of New Zealand, the North and South Islands moved closer together by 2 metres! Around the other side of the world the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) picked up the earthquake waves as they distorted the 27km in circumference particle accelerator ring by 0.1mm: [...] Fortunately the 7.8 earthquake happened in sparsely-populated area and at a time when most people were at home so there were only 2 deaths and a small number of injuries. Here is a map from SAS VA that shows the area. This was very quick and easy to do. I loaded the earthquake dataset into the VA LASR library. I then used the earthquake ID to define a custom geographic location using latitude and longitude. I then created a Geo Bubble Map report and defined the size of the dot to show the earthquake magnitude and the colour to show the depth. This screenshot really doesn't do justice to the amazing level of detail. I've also only shown the magnitude 5 or higher quakes otherwise the map would just be obliterated with dots.