" Rebecca Moore, the director of Google Earth and Earth Engine,wrote in a blog post. "With the wildfire layer, you can get up-to-date details about multiple fires at once, allowing you to make quick, informed decisions during
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The earthquake was felt throughout most of California and into Nevada and Oregon. The earthquake and resulting fires caused an estimated 3000 deaths and $524 million in property loss. The map above shows the intensity of ground shaking across the felt area of the earthquake. Intensity levels ...
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We measure fires by acreage, but the sudden spikes of air quality, while not exceeding the smoke that funneled into the Bay Area during the North Bay Fires in 2017, when the Tubbs and Atlas Fires devastated much of the Wine Country, created a run of high-smoke days, were followed by ...
by offering ways to chart intact forest landscapes worldwide and survey anthropogenic disturbances in forested lands, and inviting analysis of existing forest cover, agricultural conversion, loss of forests to lumber, man-made fires, and industrial conversion, so as to render the planet’s surface ...
Natural hazards: tsunamis , volcanoes , and earthquake activity around Pacific Basin; hurricanes along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts; tornadoes in the midwest and southeast; mud slides in California; forest fires in the west; flooding; permafrost in northern Alaska , a major impediment to...
and flying embers from coal-powered locomotives and a lack of spring rain. As summer progressed, lightning storms stuck and started more fires. In August, a hurricane-force wind storm picked up and turned small fires into infernos which burned 3 million acres of land in two days and decimat...
The attack began in the early hours of the morning on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, with thousands of rockets fired at Israeli towns and cities. Many were intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome defence system, but satellite imagery showed fires and smoke rising from locations that were hit...
Role of summer prescribed fire to manage shrub-invaded grasslands Summer burning is recognized and recommended for reclamation of rangeland vegetation under appropriate conditions and levels of supervision, experience, and training. Once reclaimed with one or two summer fires, management can shift to low...