[Andres Meira]

Ah I understand what you are saying- just add the flashing dot to the earth map, not the 3d object.

That makes sense !

I still need to figure out how to animate the start time for each flashing dot (will be thousands), as well as the size and color based on magnitude.

[Andres Meira]

thanks for this. Yes I am able to add flashing dots and particle effects on the correct 3d locations using the latitude and longitude.

The problem is each flashing dot needs to start at a specific frame count (an earthquake from 1920 must be before an earthquake from 1960).

Also, the size/color of the flashing dot should be driven by the earthquake magnitude.

Perhaps this is easy to do, but I am not sure how to connect the csv data to the layer start time, and flashing dot size/color.