{"id":21280,"date":"2020-03-20T10:07:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T10:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/?p=21280"},"modified":"2026-01-12T11:39:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T11:39:29","slug":"marker-clusters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/tutorials\/marker-clusters\/","title":{"rendered":"Marker Clusters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/tutorials\/marker-clusters-with-highcharts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marker clusters<\/a> effectively simplify the visualization of a massive number of data points on a chart (typically a scatter chart or a map) by clustering similar data points into blocks to ease the visualization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"demo-container\"><iframe  class=\"iframe-map\" height=\"500\" style=\"width: 100%;\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"USA earthquake 2000 - 2019 (mag 4.5+) with Marker Clusters\" src=\"https:\/\/codepen.io\/mushigh\/embed\/RwNGvGM?height=265&#038;theme-id=light&#038;default-tab=result\" frameborder=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><br \/>\n  See the Pen <a href='https:\/\/codepen.io\/mushigh\/pen\/dyPvezL'>USA earthquake 2000 &#8211; 2019 (mag 4.5+) with Marker Clusters<\/a> by mustapha mekhatria<br \/>\n  (<a href='https:\/\/codepen.io\/mushigh'>@mushigh<\/a>) on <a href='https:\/\/codepen.io'>CodePen<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nCheck our more <a href=\"\/\/www.highcharts.com\/demo\/maps\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"noopener\">Highcharts maps demos<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Marker clusters effectively simplify the visualization of a massive number of data points on a chart (typically a scatter chart or a map) by clustering similar data points into blocks to ease the visualization. See the Pen USA earthquake 2000 &#8211; 2019 (mag 4.5+) with Marker Clusters by mustapha mekhatria (@mushigh) on CodePen. Check [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":21281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"meta_title":"","meta_description":"","hc_selected_options":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[876],"coauthors":[699],"class_list":["post-21280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tutorials","tag-highcharts-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29229,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21280\/revisions\/29229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21280"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=21280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}