If I may, exactly how do you find such a map useful?

I followed the global incident map a few days before it dawned on me that it was more trouble to me than it was worth in bandwidth.

The problem is that it too often recorded 'incidents' before anyone knows anything. I saw a few cases of events that showed up and later turned out to be non-events.

Even the incidents that proved real enough often turned out to be far less significant than the map initially suggested. The seismic reports were anachronistic. They failed to effective differentiate the relative risk of tremors.

And when they were all that, even when I was semi-actively monitoring the site, keeping it on-screen but minimized, the alert showed up after a considerable delay. Too much of a delay to help me avoid anything.

The events that were most likely to directly effect me were far better reported, more accurately and in a more timely manner, in the local media.

The one really effective use for this sort of map, IMHO, is to further cultivate an overly sensitive alarmist streak and latent paranoia.