Animated Christchurch Earthquake Map

For Animated Map Thursdays this week we're almost topical.  This isn't a cartoon, per say, but it is an awesome interactive animated map of the quakes that hit Christchurch New Zealand since September of last year. And it covers the smaller-magnitude-but-deadlier quake earlier this week.  This was created by Paul Nicholls of the University of Canterbury's Digital Media Group in Christchurch, New Zealand.The data he used is effectively the same as the data available from the USGS' Earthquake map, but the USGS' site isn't animated... yet. I do think it would be awesome if it were possible to do a cut-away view of this or any section of the Earth's surface to show the quakes hitting at depth instead of merely color-coding the depth on a 2D surface.

Here's the URL in case the link above doesn't cut it:
http://www.christchurchquakemap.co.nz/