How to turn 3D Matplotlib plot into animated gif supporting timeline?

How to turn 3D Matplotlib plot into animated gif, supporting timeline ?

example by Giuseppe

Animation works fine but what I need extra is timeline to let me live watch new earthquake data to be injected into 3D plot real-timefine

I need button controls to start/ stop animation
buttons for zoom in/out
and buttons for timeline play
and sliders for start date , stop date
to get live visualization of earthquakes underground for Turkey
to develop
Earthquake Prediction System for Turkey, based on Precognition, input data from live seismigrams in the region.

Can you help ?

darius