Here at gCaptain, we are a big fan of maps and when you came across this one, we couldn’t help but to post here on the blog.

The above map, created by researchers at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy, and the World Bank, plots the remotest places on Earth (shown in darker shades of red).

The maps are based on a model which calculated how long it would take to travel to the nearest city of 50,000 or more people by land or water. The model combines information on terrain and access to road, rail and river networks. It also considers how factors such as altitude, steepness of terrain and hold-ups like border crossings slow travel.

While the map is pretty typical to what one would expect, there are some unexpected surprises.

In the Amazon, for example, extensive river networks and an increasing number of roads mean that only 20 per cent of the land is more than two days from a city – around the same proportion as Canada’s Quebec province.

You can read the full article at NewScientist.com and be sure to let us know what struck you in the comments section.  Of course, click on the map above for a larger image.

Tat Communications has a map of their subsea offerings. We’ve shown similar maps before but this one is interactive! Click on the image above to view in full screen.

A Magnitude 5+ earthquake was just (last 1/2hr) recorded in San Francisco.

Stay tuned for more details and please write any information or links you have in the comments section.

San Francisco Earthquake map:

http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/latest.htm

UPDATES:

2033: NOAA has recorded the event and has a GREEN light posted on their live tsunami warning page:

http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/

Here’s the live (this should update automatically but check the link above to be sure) map:

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In preparation for our announcement of 200,000 page views since launching gCaptain this May I wanted to share some of our user information with you. Of course we would never give away your personal data but I am willing to show where you are from. Below are two charts that show the locations of our latest readers.

This map paces a dot on the city of our latest readers. The dots range in size from 50 to 7,000+ visitors so we are, unfortunately, not able to show you a complete list of locations just the popular ones.

Here is a more complete list showing our readers’ home countries. The map shades each country with readers green with the largest contributing country (the U.S.A.) logging over 34,000 visitors.

I just thought you may be interested in seeing where other dedicated gCaptain readers are from. If you enjoy this blog and know anyone in Madagascar, Somalia, Ecuador or the handful of other countries we have yet to reach please pass on the link…. we’d love to have them.